- From: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:56:17 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Hi, I'm new to this list. I am developing a shareware link checker for the Macintosh called Big Brother. I have just implemented a URL parser which attempts to follow exactly the definition given in RFC 1808. The problem is, according to these rules, the following URL is invalid: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/ because the tilde (~) character is not allowed in path segments. Yet tilde characters are very common in everyday use on the Web, so I must assume that RFC 1808 either contains typos or is out of date. Can anyone point me to a correct and precise definition of the URL syntax? Thanks! -- Francois Pottier Francois.Pottier@inria.fr http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/
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