On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > According to RFC 2396, the list of characters reserved, banned, or > disrecommended for URIs are: > > ; / ? : @ & = + $ , < > # % " { } | \ ^ [ ] ` > > and space. The safest thing to do would be to map all of those characters > to _. (Some of them we could get away with not mapping, but I prefer to > appeal to a clear authority for things like this rather than generating a > custom list.)
I fail to see why / would be banned from an URI. :-) http://bugs.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a working URL for example. The "#" clearly has a special meaning in URL... but I haven't seen an email with that character, the same goes for the rest of your special characters. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]