Sam Heywood wrote:
>BTW, I frequently see the tilde symbol (i.e. "~"), in the name of some
>URLs. The tilde symbol is used in DOS to substitute for some characters
>in long file names in Windoze.
And on the Internet to show that it's a users directory. (for instance
imagine someone getting the account "support", it would be usefull to show
that this s infact not the support pages but someones name.
>If an HTML file in a URL were to have a long file name, could a DOS user
>simply use a tilde to substitute for characters?
No, the URL is still the same. What you need to do (and Arachne does this
since little less than a year) is to substitute all " " (spaces) with
"%20". Remember that you access a remote server and that this server must
understand the filename you supply.
//Bernie
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