Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> ie the critical point seems to be that url_path is willing to soak
> up a string containing "<" and ">", so the span tags don't get
> recognized as separate lexemes. While that's "obviously" the
> wrong thing in this particular example, I'm not sure if it's the
> wrong thing in general. Can anyone comment on the frequency of
> usage of those two symbols in URLs?
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt section 2.4.3 "delims" expressly
forbids their use in URIs.
> In any case it's weird that the URL lexeme doesn't span the same
> text as the url_path one, but I'm not sure which one we should
> consider wrong.
In spite of the above prohibition, I notice that firefox and wget
both seem to *try* to use such characters if they're included.
-Kevin