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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:12:49 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera/stopspammers/.com
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Universal Resource Locators (that's what it stands for) started out as
path descriptions. For why twiddle is supported, you might read up on
the Andrew File System.
~lpien is a valid file path (that is, you can cd to it) on a CTP unix
box, or was until I resigned. At various times in my career there it
resolved to various different places as my home directory got moved
around from machine to machine.
Therefore w3.ctp.com/~lpien is a valid URL if you're on the CTP internal
network (the internal nameserver knows how to resolve w3.ctp.com)
That's how I understood it.
If url's disallowed twiddle, I would consider them broken.
--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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NOTE: I have left CTP, effective 18 June 99, and my CTP email
will not work after then. Please switch to my Novera ID.
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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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