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Re: Growth
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:19:04 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > This is very interesting when compared with
> > > <http://news.lugnet.com/news/raw.cgi?lugnet.general:8265>
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> > This URL didn't work for me, I get an "unrecognized request" response.
> > If I use:
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> > http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=8265
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> > it works just fine. Is the first form supposed to work?
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> Yes, the first form is supposed to work -- and I think the problem you're
> seeing with it is the first ever reported. I'm not surprised, though,
> because it's technically kind of "dangerous" (or "iffy") to use colons in
> URLs, because they're technically not allowed. Lots of sites use "illegal"
> characters like tilde (~) and colon (:) and some even use parentheses. Most
> browsers pass the request along without any problem, but it could be the case
> that your browser is more standards-compliant than most and subsequently
> complains. Does it chop the ":8625" from the URL before sending? Looks like
> your browser was Netscape 3.0 on AIX+X11.
Ah, figured it out, if I cut and paste it it works. The whole URL is
highlighted in the news article, so I think NS 3.0 has a bug in clicking
on the link from the news article. Clicking on the "view raw" link from
the HTML version works also so it's just a bug in the newsreader.
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) You mean that NS 3.0 on AIX/X11 thinks that the trailing > is part of the URL? Wow, I thought only MSOE had that problem. Well, that's good to know. --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Yes, the first form is supposed to work -- and I think the problem you're seeing with it is the first ever reported. I'm not surprised, though, because it's technically kind of "dangerous" (or "iffy") to use colons in URLs, because they're (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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