Re: Auto-Download tags/function?

Marc VanHeyningen (mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu)
Mon, 23 May 1994 07:49:50 -0500


Phill Hallam-Baker said:
> SYNTAX !!!
>
> scheme://host/dir/dir/dir/file;atts !!!!
>
> NO NO NO NO NO !!!!
>
> It breaks on any system with version numbers. The semicolon is used on
> most systems.

Doesn't matter. Semicolon is a reserved character in the URL grammar; if you
want it to represent itself in a filename you need to escape it.

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