Hah! We've got people looking at that same RFC and saying colons are
reserved!
Guess I'll have to read it now, and add my own intrepretation. < :-(
Not that I don't trust you, Richard. As Gorbachev once said, "Trust, but
verify."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Tobin [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:05 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] OT: Where did URI pipe symbol hack originate?
>
>
> >file:///C|/mydir/myfile.txt
> >
> >Having a little debate about whether the appropriate thing
> is to escape the
> >colon with %xx instead of using the pipe (or colon). Has a
> consensus formed
> >that is (mostly) cross-platform compatible?
>
> There's no good reason not to use a plain colon. It's quite legal in
> path components (see RFC 2396).
>
> -- Richard
>
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