At 18.04 +0100 02-02-28, Jacob Palme wrote: >Is the tilde character (~) still an unsafe character >in URLs, which should be encoded as %7E. Or has it >been accepted as permitted, because of its wide- >spread usage, as a de-facto extension to the URL >standards? >-- >Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) >for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/ I have found the answer myself, in RFC 2369: The tilde "~" character was added to those in the "unreserved" set, since it is extensively used on the Internet in spite of the difficulty to transcribe it with some keyboards. -- Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/Received on Friday, 1 March 2002 04:20:24 GMT
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