Message-Id: <aafad549010210035893@[165.227.40.14]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 16:39:37 -0800
To: uri@bunyip.com
From: goph-mn@proper.com (Paul Hoffman, Gopher/Web maintainer)
Subject: Splitting a URL over multiple lines
In looking at the most recent URL spec, I did not see any mention of the
possibility of splitting a URL with carriage returns. For example, some
URLs could be more than 80 characters and some display systems would
therefore truncate them, rendering them useless. One could arbitrarily
split a URL in the middle to prevent such truncation or simply to make it
more readable by humans.
Because an interal carriage return would never be misinterpreted (by
definition, a real carriage return in the URL would have to be encoded as
"%0D"), I would think that an interal carriage return would be harmless.
However, that doesn't mean that it is allowed.
Is it harmless? Should it be allowed?
--Paul Hoffman
--Proper Publishing