/ Peter Poeml <poeml@suse.de> was heard to say:
| 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.
RFC 1738 has been replaced by RFC 2396 which describes the semicolon
character in section 3.3:
The path may consist of a sequence of path segments separated by a
single slash "/" character. Within a path segment, the characters
"/", ";", "=", and "?" are reserved. Each path segment may include a
sequence of parameters, indicated by the semicolon ";" character.
The parameters are not significant to the parsing of relative
| This leads me to saying that the URL you quoted is not correct.
Nope, by my reading of 2396, it's just fine and the ':' function
should include the reserved characters in URLs.
-- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Always do one thing less than you think http://nwalsh.com/ | you can do.--Bernard Baruch
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