Re: Extended URL for frames
Arnoud (galactus@htmlhelp.com)
Fri, 13 Sep 1996 20:43:44 +0200
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: Extended URL for frames
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 20:43:44 +0200
Message-ID: <gtaOy4uYOpaP089yn@htmlhelp.com>
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In article <199609131121.EAA29460@switzerland.it.earthlink.net>,
"David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've noticed a hurdle for this proposal: although fragments are
> described vaguely as 'not considered part of the URL,' '#' is declared
> an 'unsafe' character in RFC1808, and as such is proscribed for use
> within fragments. Too bad - substitution of another character would
> make for a less elegant construct.
It's RFC 1738 I think (1808 is just relative URLs), but the reason
that # is specified as unsafe is because it's used to delimit URLs
and fragments. Having a filename with a # in it would lead to
confusion if it wasn't escaped.
However, if the frame sequence comes *after* a fragment, it shouldn't
be a problem.
Galactus
PS: Speaking of URL lengths, you still have the problem of the 1024
character limit for the HREF and SRC attributes.
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