Re: HTML Validation Form [Was: Nesting of HTML elements ]

Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit (lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk)
Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:49:38 +0100

Marc VanHeyningen wrote:

> Actually the spec has
> varied a bit over time, but both RFC 1630 describing WWW URLs and the
> latest standards-track URL definition from the URI WG declare that the
> tilde may not appear in URLs unencoded.

Why?

Given that HTTP is 8 bit clean, the only reason I can think of is people
passing URLs around in mail, through something awfull like an ASCII-EBCDIC
gateway. Is that it?

--
Chris