- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 08:34:32 -0400
- To: ietf-lists@proper.com
- Cc: html-wg@oclc.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>>This is not always true. The [EUC] part could specify one of a myriad >>different coded character sets and encodings, with the following >>octect string being different for each as well. I think it >>unreasonable to expect the administrator to maintain a database of all >>possible alias. > >They don't have to: they are the ones creating the URLs! If they tack a >[XYZ] at the front or end of the URL (wherever your proposed standard puts >it), they should certainly be able to serve it. Yes, but there is a large number of ways of encoding the strings of characters making up the URL. That's my point.
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