> On 10/24/09 1:18 PM, Craig Andrews wrote: >> According to the RFC, you're right: URLs cannot have " in them. But, >> unfortunately, in real life, people use "'s in URLs. For that reason, I >> allow them - but perhaps I should change that? > > I haven't really seen them outside of wikis, and even there they have to > be URL-encoded. Cut-and-paste a link from Wikipedia that's got quotes in > the title and you'll see %22s in there... > > Do we have any cases we can see in actual identi.ca usage where there's > a legit unencoded quote character in a URL? > > -- brion > A few queries against the identica database should reveal this information. I'd suggest searching notice table's content column for the string http://www.google.com/search?q="; and seeing what comes up, for starters. Also interesting would be to search: the file table's url column the file_redirection table's url column
Also, I may be a bit prejudiced against IE, but I doubt that it does the intelligent thing that Firefox does that you described above (converting " to %22s when copying URLs). I'm quite interested to see these results! I really hope you're right, and users are being more RFC compliant than I fear. _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
