From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T13:33:36+09:00
Subject: [OT]    Re: Are square brackets not allowed in a URI?


On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Just Another Victim of the Ambient  
Morality wrote:

>    I could swear that this URL works:
>
>
> http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/players/189_YellOw[ArnC]
>
>
>    ...but parsing this with URI throws an exception claiming that  
> this is
> invalid.
>    I don't know exactly what URI's are but Mechanize is using it to  
> parse
> URLs and this appears to be a valid URL so it looks like either  
> Mechanize's
> bug is in using Ruby's URI module or the URI module in not accepting  
> valid
> URLs.  Either that or there's something I'm totally not  
> understanding (like
> my browser lying to me or something).  Can someone tell me what's  
> going on?
>    Thank you!
>
>
>
>

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html



"

  Other characters are excluded because gateways and other transport
    agents are known to sometimes modify such characters, or they are
    used as delimiters.

    unwise      = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"

    Data corresponding to excluded characters must be escaped in order  
to
    be properly represented within a URI.


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