- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:29:51 +0100
- To: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:18:59 +0100, Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote: > But maybe I got it completely wrong. Without kowing what > STD 66 actually means I'm unable to comment something like... > > newsgroup-name = %x22-29 / %x2B / %x2D-3E / %x40-5A / %x5E-7E > > ...found in draft-lindsey-news-nntp-uri-00, which of these > characters need to be escaped in an URL ? It says "the characters '%', '@', '/' and '#' are reserved and MUST be %-encoded if they occur. All other characters MAY be used freely to represent themselves". AIUI, saying that is consistent with RFC 3986. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5
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