At 17:23 -0500 1/8/03, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
>On 8 Jan 2003, at 12:08, Paul DuBois wrote:
>
>> You must perform the conversion yourself, displaying the URL both
>> as the href atttribute and body text of an <a> tag. Don't forget
>> to URL-encode it for use in the attribute, and HTML-encode it for
>> use in the body text.
>
>I think Paul meant to say you should HTML-encode it for both the HREF
>value and the link text. URL-encoding is for *parameters* that are
>going to become part of a URL. You wouldn't URL-encode a whole URL
>(unless you were passing it as a parameter in another URL -- perhaps
>the URL of a redirection script). A URL-encoded URL wouldn't work as
>a link, since the slashes would have been changed to '%2F', among
>other things.
Correct, thanks.
>
>The HTML-encoding is only necessary if the URL could contain an
>ampersand (or less-than, greater-than, or quote, but URLs aren't
>supposed to have those characters in them).
>
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