Posted by Jim Higson on 03/14/06 11:14

Gufus wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Monday March 13 2006, Jim Higson writes to Gufus:
>
> > From: jh@333.org
> > I can't quote specs, but I don't think chars like [ and ]
> > are allowed in URLs. I might be wrong, or it might just be
>
> IE and Opera worked using "[]" in the url.
>
> Firefox and Netscape changed it to.
>
> http://www.gypsy-designs.com/example%5B2%5D.html

I think probably they all did, they just didn't tell you.
Anyway, a browser correcting a URL doesn't make it valid. Browsers correct
for all kinds of invalid input.

--
Jim

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