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Topic: Parentheses in URLs

Message 1 / 2
Don JudgeNov 8, 2012

To get technical for those of us that are Techies...

It's def not an HTML issue as paretheses are allowed in URLs (Web addresses)

Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the WWW) specifically allows ( and ) in URLs in the specification.

Extract from the RFC on URLs (one of the Internet rule books) written by him

   ...only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
   reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
   unencoded within a URL.

So they should work but of course not everyone sticks to the rules...

The only common denominator I can see is Yahoo.

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Cheers

Don __o
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.....O/ O

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Topic: Re: Parentheses in URLs

Message 2 / 2
James R CurryNov 8, 2012

You can also escape the parentheses, the left one becoming %28 and the right one becoming %29.

Therefore, the following should work for those who couldn't previously click the URL:

http://nylon.net/up/JAM-1971-10-12@090%28S06E01%29=Doing_My_Own_Thing-v2.mp3

Hope that helps!

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Don Judge <don@...> wrote:

To get technical for those of us that are Techies...

It's def not an HTML issue as paretheses are allowed in URLs (Web addresses)
Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the WWW) specifically allows ( and ) in URLs in the specification.
Extract from the RFC on URLs (one of the Internet rule books) written by him
...only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL.
So they should work but of course not everyone sticks to the rules...

The only common denominator I can see is Yahoo.

--
Cheers

Don __o
\<,
.....O/ O

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James R Curry
scratchy@...

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