[10186] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Tue Aug 6 16:47:54 1996
To: david@ufl.edu
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960806130912.12649A-100000@maverick.nerdc.ufl.edu>
(message from David Nessl on Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:39:07 PDT)
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:16:38 PDT
Resent-From: 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
