Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 09:38:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Jon P. Knight" <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Splitting a URL over multiple lines
To: goph-mn@proper.com
In-Reply-To: <aafad549010210035893@[165.227.40.14]>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9411250933.A25023-b100000@suna>
On Thu, 24 Nov 1994 goph-mn@proper.com wrote:
> 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.
This is the point of the URL wrapper - the <URL: and > are the delimiters
to tell you (or your software) where the URL starts and ends in plaintext.
You can slip carriage returns in and they should be ignored. One point to
note is to be careful not to hyphenate the split; a line wrapping hyphen
could be mistaken for a real hyphen in the URL. Newspapers sometimes do
this when they print a long URL in a narrow column and its a pain.
Jon
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