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Subject: 
Re: jump.cgi
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 03:30:40 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.!ihatespam!org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
the multiple http://'s are what's confusticating it.  In which case it can be

I think it's specifically the multiple ":" characters. RFC 1738 mentions ":"
as a reserved character -- that is, when it occurs in the scheme-specific
part of a URL (URLs being <scheme>:<scheme-specific-part>, of course) it
should *only* be used in a scheme-specific special way. Otherwise it should
be encoded.

Of course, in the real world, a lot of sites do exactly what you're doing;
I'm surprised IE has a problem.

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