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Re: Growth
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:15:12 GMT
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Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@nospam.mallorn.com> wrote:
As Todd pointed out, the colon should be replaced with %3A, but that
doesn't excuse poor matching like this.  :)

Yah, I mentioned this a long time ago
<http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=7491> but no one cared. :)

The ':' character (unlike '~', which is merely unsafe) is labeled
"reserved". Like '/' or '?', it is only supposed to be used in certain ways.
So really, xmms is doing the right thing.


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Message has 1 Reply:
  Colons in URLs (was: Re: Growth)
 
(...) Okie dokie, I just fixed the page-generating scripts that were using ":" in the URLs. I switched the to commas "," . (Colon ":" still works of course for sdrawkcab compatibility. :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Growth
 
(...) I probably didn't explain it right... The example that you give above works, but something like (URL) because it thinks that song.mp3 is the port number. Other failures include (URL) it would try to connect on port 100. As Todd pointed out, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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