Re: mailto: url

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 11:30:20 MET DST
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-id: <9307130930.AA22199@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: eostrom@fiicmds04.tu-graz.ac.at, timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: mailto: url
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Status: RO

> How should characters legal in RFC822 mail addresses but not in URLs be
> handled?

Yes Iguiess they should be %quoted.  Another possibility is that we
allow spaces and quotes etc in URLs.  This is sugested by about
50% of those with an opionion on the matter in the URI working
group (yesterday).  It will be discussed again tomorrow.


Tim