- From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 19:48:23 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Albert Lunde <albert-lunde@nwu.edu>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Albert Lunde wrote: > Considering the original objectives of URLs (use subset of US-ASCII > characters that would survive e-mail gateways, something humans > could write on paper) and the things that had to be factored > in for backward compatiblity with existing systems and protocols > (mix of case-sensitive/case-insensitive elements, various > reserved characters), the idea that the URI name space is > a bit "broken" seems reasonable to me. Yes indeed. URLs are a destillate of the Internet. And the Internet is very broken in various ways. But still working nicely :-). Regards, Martin.
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