- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:16:38 PDT
- To: david@ufl.edu
- CC: www-talk@w3.org
Square brackets "[" "]" are currently not allowed in URLs, and are
listed as "unsafe":
> Other characters are unsafe because
> gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify
> such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",
> "[", "]", and "`".
two alternatives seem workable:
1) dotted decimal with 8 parts instead of 4
2) string of hex with no punctuation
- Larry
Received on Tuesday, 6 August 1996 16:19:34 UTC