Re: Bug#373218: qa.debian.org: Patch
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> According to RFC 2396, the list of characters reserved, banned, or
> disrecommended for URIs are:
>
> ; / ? : @ & = + $ , < > # % " { } | \ ^ [ ] `
>
> and space. The safest thing to do would be to map all of those characters
> to _. (Some of them we could get away with not mapping, but I prefer to
> appeal to a clear authority for things like this rather than generating a
> custom list.)
I fail to see why / would be banned from an URI. :-)
http://bugs.debian.org/sam+deb@zoy.org is a working URL for example.
The "#" clearly has a special meaning in URL... but I haven't seen an
email with that character, the same goes for the rest of your special
characters.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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