On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:48:01 -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I think I may have found a bug in the colon (':') function, described
> on the Help screen as, "Mark URL-like strings as anchors." I am not
> sure that w3m's behavior is incorrect--it just didn't do what I expected
> it to do.
>
> I received e-mail containing the following URL:
>
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2000/10/20/24336/134
>
> (The e-mail was "YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER FOR October 22, 2000".) I
> used w3m to read the message and typed ':' to highlight the URLs. w3m
> highlighted only the portion of this URL up to the semicolon (';'),
> i.e., it treated the semicolon as a delimiter instead of as part of the
> URL. If a semicolon is a valid character within a URL, w3m should have
> highlighted it and the rest of the URL as well.
According to rfc1738 (http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc1738.html)
the semicolon is a valid character in certain contents: in ftp URLs, and
in prospero URLs (Prospero Directory Service).
In http URLs it is claimed to be "reserved" -- whatever that means.
One example: <URL:ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1436.txt;type=a>
Normally, the separator character between two arguments appended to a
URL in a GET request is a n ampersand (&).
This leads me to saying that the URL you quoted is not correct.
> BTW, this is a really useful feature of w3m!
Indeed, I have already used it extensively on one occasion.
Have fun
Peter
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