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Error in RFC 1808?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Francois Pottier)
Mon Oct 21 20:08:21 1996
From: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:56:17 +0200 (MET DST)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Hi,
I'm new to this list. I am developing a shareware link checker for the
Macintosh called Big Brother. I have just implemented a URL parser which
attempts to follow exactly the definition given in RFC 1808.
The problem is, according to these rules, the following URL is invalid:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/
because the tilde (~) character is not allowed in path segments. Yet
tilde characters are very common in everyday use on the Web, so I must
assume that RFC 1808 either contains typos or is out of date. Can anyone
point me to a correct and precise definition of the URL syntax?
Thanks!
--
Francois Pottier
Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/
