- From: Rob A Elkins <elkinsra@prism.es.dupont.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 95 10:34:43 EST
- To: www-proxy@www0.cern.ch
Well, it's happening to us again. Our users are having trouble talking to WAIS servers through an HTTP gateway because the translation routines in libWWW seem to overtranslate punctuation characters. For instance, I noticed that the library oftens translates a colon into %3A. This causes problems when an HREF points to a URL through another machine, such as in a HTTP -> WAIS passthru, i.e. http://foo.com/foo1.com:8000/... I've read the http specifications; while they describe how to translate characters, there appears to be no description of which characters are to be translated. One would hope that the various servers would know what to do with the translated characters, but often that is now always the case. I've modified the library before so that our CERN proxy would no longer translate dollar signs; Can anyone give me a definitive list as to what should be translated and what shouldn't Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Just remember, no matter where you go, there you are." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob Elkins Internet: elkinsra@prism.es.dupont.com DuPont Central Research & Development Scientific Computing Division Voice: 302-695-9292 Standard Disclaimer: I'm an adult, these are my opinions, not DuPont's.
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