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Re: lynx-dev Conversion of special character codes within anchor tags


From: Al Gilman
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Conversion of special character codes within anchor tags
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:40:54 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> However it is becoming quite common for hard coded forms URLs to use
> ;, partly because it doesn't require entity encoding in the HTML.
> 
> > we may both be wrong on this point. RFC 1738 (which is the one I think you
> > want, states in section 3.3:
> > 
> >    "Within the <path> and <searchpart> components, "/", ";", "?" are
> >    reserved."
> > 
> > So ";" is not available as a delimiter.

That is taking the "reserved" status backward.  Here "reserved"
means you can't use it for anything _but_ a delimiter.  It is
worth reading RFC 2396 on this point.

> 
> It is definitely being used as that these days although I don't know the
> underpinning standards.
> 
> 

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