Re: mailto: url

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From: eostrom@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at (Erik Ostrom)
Message-id: <9307121637.AA02899@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 17:36:25 +0100
To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-reply-to: <9307120848.AA29289@ nxoc01.cern.ch > (timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch)
Subject: Re: mailto: url
Status: RO

	   m a i l t o : internetformatofanymailaddressalarfc822

   Anyone see any problems with that?

How should characters legal in RFC822 mail addresses but not in URLs be
handled?  That is, how do we deal with "Erik Ostrom"@foo.bar.baz.com?  Or do
we just proclaim that addresses containing unpopular characters deserve to
lose?

I think %-quoting (and unquoting in the browser, this is important) is an
obvious answer, but I'd like to have some kind of official agreement on how to
deal with this.

--Erik

P.S. And what about Gopher URLs?  Anyone else care about making implementation
and spec match up?  It's just a / away...