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Re: HTML Validation Form [Was: Nesting of HTML elements ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Un)
Mon Oct 31 06:05:33 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:56:25 +0100
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From: lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
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Marc VanHeyningen wrote:
> Actually the spec has
> varied a bit over time, but both RFC 1630 describing WWW URLs and the
> latest standards-track URL definition from the URI WG declare that the
> tilde may not appear in URLs unencoded.
Why?
Given that HTTP is 8 bit clean, the only reason I can think of is people
passing URLs around in mail, through something awfull like an ASCII-EBCDIC
gateway. Is that it?
--
Chris
