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Off topic - Re: new robotag movies
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 16 Jul 1999 03:56:31 GMT
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Ben Williamson <benw@+Spamcake+pobox.com>
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Scharff wrote:
> Actually that is not a bug. It defies logic to think it IS a bug. The AI
> that recognizes a URL in Outlook and Outlook Express looks for certain
> things, like the URL: and HTTP: designators with text immediately following
> (this means no space). It "terminates" the URL encoding when it reaches the
> first space. This is standard programming methodology for string parsing.
> How is the AI supposed to know, without using spaces, that anything you
> typed was not part of the URL? just hit a space before the close > and
> voila, a TRUE url.
Actually, it is a bug. The '<' and '>' characters are explicitly illegal
in URLs. Refer to <URL:http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html> if
you're unsure. That document is a BNF grammar for URLs. BNF is standard
programming methodology for string parsing. No AI required.
From that page:
The "national" and "punctuation" characters do not appear in any
productions and therefore may not appear in URLs.
...
punctuation
< | >
Now, stop tickling my pedantism and go build something. ;)
- Ben.
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Ben Williamson benw@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~benw/
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| Actually that is not a bug. It defies logic to think it IS a bug. The AI that recognizes a URL in Outlook and Outlook Express looks for certain things, like the URL: and HTTP: designators with text immediately following (this means no space). It (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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