Re: LYNX-DEV Spaces in <A HREF="#foo bar"> are deleted

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Duncan Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Andrew Haylett wrote:
> > If I have
> >     <A HREF="#foo bar">link</A>
> Netscape and Co, are working around the problem.  The space should be
> hex-encoded for it to work properly under Lynx (Is it in an RFC anywhere?)
> If I remember correctly, its %20 for space...ie:
> <A HREF="#foo%20bar">blah</a>

They are ignoring standards, not "working around the problem."  Look
at RFC1808, which has (in part):

RFC 1808           Relative Uniform Resource Locators          June 1995
   URL         = ( absoluteURL | relativeURL ) [ "#" fragment ]
   fragment    =  *( uchar | reserved )
   uchar       = unreserved | escape
   unreserved  = alpha | digit | safe | extra
   escape      = "%" hex hex
   hex         = digit | "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" |
                         "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f"
   safe        = "$" | "-" | "_" | "." | "+"
   extra       = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","

I don't see " " in there anywhere.

------
<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/db/users/us/md/lib/bcpl/jspath/face.xbm>
Marvin the Paranoid Android says:
My God I'm depressed.

;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE:  Send a mail message to address@hidden
;                  with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
;                  quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;