Re: your mail

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr> writes:

> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Fritz Zaucker wrote:
> 
> > PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
> > 
> > <url>At our web site (http://www.ee.ethz.ch/) ...</url>
> > 
> > gets translated into 
> > 
> > At our web site (<a
> > href="http://www.ee.ethz.ch/)">http://www.ee.ethz.ch/)</a> ...
> > 
> > NOTE: The URL includes the closing parenthesis )
> 
> You're right.
> 
> After reading the RFC1738, i think that parenthesis are valid characters
> within URLs. 

Oh my god ....

> But now i believe that <url> is an help tag, and so is not intended
> to be fully RFC compliant. I will remove the last character of the URL
> if one of ['"?!.;:)>] (brackets are not included in this list).
> Any comment?

How about an optional argument to like <url RFC> that make's the tag
RFC-compliant and by default make it "reasonable" as you suggested?

To be honest, I don't like non-compliant approaches very much, but it
just seems silly this way.

Another option would be to at least have a way to escape the "funny
characters", although, I guess, to allow MS-type URLs one would have
to use at least a double backslash for an escape sequenz. Not
particularly nice ...

Fritz

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