On 9 Oct 2002 at 22:23, Greg Fenton wrote:
>
> --- Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > where would I change the URL parser?
> >
> > If you'd like to hack away at the URL parser, it's in htlib/URL.cc.
> >
>
> If you're going to hack the parser to handle Broken URLs, then please
> make this configurable.
>
well, i am not that much of a coder- at least not for C/C++, so will
probably put this on the back burner.
Plus, I just applied the fileSpace.1 patch that handled it for me...
> Personally, I'd rather get warnings/errors in the output of htdig
> indicating that a URL in a webpage is invalid rather than break
> htdig's conformance to standards.
>
> Just because IE (and possibly NS) are broken, doesn't mean that all
> web clients (browsers and/or robots) are.
>
> Just my thoughts (I've written URL parsing code a few times, back
> before there ever was a CPAN or Java 1.0...adhering to standards is a
> Good Thing).
>
I agree with you.
The main reason I want this functionality is that staff here at work will not
care about "standards" just what is convenient. They may want to
upload documents to our web sites that contain spaces in the filenames
and I will have to work within that framework. I will educate them but it is
an uphill battle. It is a pity really.
cheers,
adrian
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