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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:51:16 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> ...the tilde character (ASCII code 126) isn't valid in URLs. I've seen people
> write %7E instead of ~, which is apparently the only correct way to write it,
> but almost no one is aware of that (as judged by the huge number of ~'s seen
> in URLs *everywhere* on the net). So practically speaking, it would be more
> broken (in users' minds) to disallow ~ than to allow it.
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> So what's up with that, anyway? How the heck did ~ gain such huge popularity
> if it's not officially allowed in URLs? Was it allowed once upon a time? Or
> is it simply part of today's de facto URL standard because of its extremely
> wide misuse? (It's too bad that it's not officially allowed, because it's a
> great character for what it's typically used for.)
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> --Todd
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> [followups set to lugnet.publish]
Unix makes the ~ character a users home directory ... so UnixSystem/~lee ... would
be my
home directory ...
Now because of this, and since the Internet (Arpanet) were all college schools when
it 'went public', the system of choice at colleges was Unix, this made the web have
some of the same naming conventions ...
It's an old thing ... but you know what it's like to get hundreds of people to
change ... think of what the colleges went through to get millions of students to
change ... which they didn't.
-Lee.
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| (...) That's what I thought the etymology of ~ was in URLs too -- but how did it ever get *allowed* in URLs in the first place? That's what baffles me. The first time someone tried it, why didn't it fail? The early browsers and httpd daemons must've (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | URL characters
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| (...) Gulp, I made the same mistake in my URL detection code on the web interface here. Just tightened up the set of allowable characters a bit and regression tested...much better now. BTW, I'm consciously going against what W3 says about the ~ (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
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