Re: LYNX-DEV HREF pedantry

[Ambrose Li]

In article <address@hidden>,
David Woolley  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> eg  HREF="#What is new"  rather than  HREF="#What_is_new" ;
>> the corresponding  NAME  lines are correct apart from the omitted  _ ;
>
>Are fragments immune for URL encoding requirements?  Otherwise the spaces
>should be %20s.
>
>However, given that MSIE, and probably FrontPage, will accept raw spaces
>in the middle of the main part of a URL, I think the be tolerant in
>what you accept principle would suggest that Lynx ought to tolerate raw
>spaces (and encode them before transmitting in the main part of a URL).
>The original reason for denying spaces is surely that they can be
>corrupted by word wrapping.

But even Netscape does not allow unencoded spaces.

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