Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
 
> ie the critical point seems to be that url_path is willing to soak
> up a string containing "<" and ">", so the span tags don't get
> recognized as separate lexemes.  While that's "obviously" the
> wrong thing in this particular example, I'm not sure if it's the
> wrong thing in general. Can anyone comment on the frequency of
> usage of those two symbols in URLs?
 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt section 2.4.3 "delims" expressly
forbids their use in URIs.
 
> In any case it's weird that the URL lexeme doesn't span the same
> text as the url_path one, but I'm not sure which one we should
> consider wrong.
 
In spite of the above prohibition, I notice that firefox and wget
both seem to *try* to use such characters if they're included.
 
-Kevin

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