[OT] URL terminators
[OT] URL terminators
- Subject: [OT] URL terminators
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 02:17:23 EDT
Paul,
What I'm about to pop out is not OT specific, but rather
http specific: aside from the domain name resolution to a
specific IP address, the rest of the URL is locally
derrived and specified. As a result, any character other
than enter/return/carriage return/line feed can be used
within an URL, and often is by various back-end databases.
Spaces in specific are often generated by such software
(and by well intentioned, but unknowledgable beginning html
programmers in saving their files); the standard conversion
for a space within an URL string would be ; tabs are .
E.G. -
http://www.somewhere.net/this and that/whatever.html
would be fed back into the browser [as string] as:
http://www.somewhere.net/this and that/whatever.html
For more information, see:
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.txt
Best Wishes,
=-= Marc Glasgow
Paul Wrote:
>
Is there somewhere I can go to read about what characters
>
are valid for http URLs. and in particular which characters
>
would indicate that an http URL has terminated, in HTML
>
source code? E.g., " ", " ", ">" are ones I know about
>
about, optionally preceded by (return). I'd guess that
>
(tab) would be another, but maybe not. I think there's
>
another way of indicating (space), when there at=re several
>
spaces, but I forget what it is.
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