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From: Isis <isis55423@hotpop.com>
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Subject: Re: Sullivan's Travels (1941) 1:1 FS DVD9 NTSC Criterion [1/1] - "Travels.nfo" (1/1)
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@ Free Agent:
As you probably know, Isis has never been one to throw in the towel very easily.
And so I will try yet again:
This is in regard to your habit of enclosing your URL links within angle
brackets. < >
You stated that they worked just fine, and so if I am having a problem then it
must be with my .NFO viewer.
Well, your URL links work just fine with my .NFO viewer (NFOPad), as I am sure
they do with yours. That wasn't the issue.
If I have actually downloaded your .NFO, then I am probably downloading your
entire post. I have made the commitment and it is now a little late to be
checking IMDb to see if I really want it.
As with many posters, I check out .NFOs via either BinSearch or Newzbin. That is
where I click on the URL links.
If you examine your links there, you will find that the right angle bracket
(ASCII #62) is highlighted along with the rest of the URL. It shouldn't be, and
that is really their problem. (I submitted a work ticket regarding this issue to
Newzbin and received assurances that it would be fixed in a few hours. That was
over two months ago.)
So as things stand, my browser believes that the right angle bracket is part of
the URL and so it translates it to hex notation (%3E) and adds it to the URL.
There are a number of ASCII characters you can't use in a URL, just as there are
some that you can't use in a filename.
You probably remember the late, great George Carlin's famous routine, "The Nine
ASCII Characters You Can't Say in a Filename".
Well, here they are for URLs:
:Characters can be unsafe in URLs for a number of reasons:
:
:The space character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and
:insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or typeset
:or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.
:
:The characters < and > are unsafe because they are used as the delimiters
:around URLs in free text.
:
:The quote mark " is used to delimit URLs in some systems.
:
:The character # is unsafe and should always be encoded because it is used
:in World Wide Web and in other systems to delimit a URL from a fragment/anchor
:identifier that might follow it.
:
:The character % is unsafe because it is used for encodings of other characters.
:
:Other characters are unsafe because gateways and other transport agents are
:known to sometimes modify such characters.
:
:These characters are [ ] { } ` | \ ^ ~
Well, that's all for now...
Isis
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