Re: LYNX-DEV Spaces in <A HREF="#foo bar"> are deleted

[Manheim Township Crew]

Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim) wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Duncan Hill wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Andrew Haylett wrote:
> > > If I have
> > >     <A HREF="#foo bar">link</A>
> > Netscape and Co, are working around the problem.  The space should be
> > hex-encoded for it to work properly under Lynx (Is it in an RFC anywhere?)
> > If I remember correctly, its %20 for space...ie:
> > <A HREF="#foo%20bar">blah</a>
> 
> They are ignoring standards, not "working around the problem."  Look
> at RFC1808, which has (in part):
> 
> RFC 1808           Relative Uniform Resource Locators          June 1995
>    URL         = ( absoluteURL | relativeURL ) [ "#" fragment ]
>    fragment    =  *( uchar | reserved )
>    uchar       = unreserved | escape
>    unreserved  = alpha | digit | safe | extra
>    escape      = "%" hex hex
>    hex         = digit | "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" |
>                          "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f"
>    safe        = "$" | "-" | "_" | "." | "+"
>    extra       = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","
> 
> I don't see " " in there anywhere.

But, in 2.3.3 "Excluded Characters", space is mentioned.

   James Mastros
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