Re: Bug Report

Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:54:50 +0200

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* Laurent Simonneau wrote:
>Why the character '|' is converted to '%7C' in URLs ?

RFC 2396 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) defines it as an unwise
character, they must be escaped in URIs.

>Exemple : 
>libwww-perl send :
>
>GET http://www.lycos.fr/cgi-bin/nph-bounce?LIA14%7C/service/sms/
>HTTP/1.0
>
>And the server reply a 404 not found error.

That's a bug, maybe Lycos people should get better software, libwww-perl
behaves correctly.
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