Re: HTTP in practice

[Joe Klemmer <klemmerj () webtrek com>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

> > Hmmm.  Any examples of what you'd consider one of these "bad URLs" to look
> > like?  We try to be pretty friendly URL-wise.
>
> URLs with '|', ';', '>', '..', '*' and other metacharacters
> are probably not a good idea.
[...]

        Just on this specific point, the code for the WN web server
(http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/) has a nice little piece in the source tree
that parses out the URL and traps for "invalid" characters.  It might not
be bad to look at it.

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