At 10:16 AM 7/21/2006 +1000, Richard Jones wrote: >On Thursday 20 July 2006 13:54, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > Seriously, if browsers had a problem with downloads that have trailing junk > > on their URLs, then a whole lot of SourceForge projects, porn sites, and > > other dynamic downloading applications would be quite seriously out of > > luck. :) > >Is there really prior art for this? Sourceforge doesn't do this, AFAIK.
I'm referring to query strings, actually, with respect to prior art. A few minutes experimentation shows that the following browsers work just fine with #md5 links: * Mozilla 1.7 * Firefox 1.0 * Internet Explorer 6 * Lynx 2.8 * Opera 8.5.4 I think that's a pretty good indication that most web browsers know how to handle URI fragment identifiers in compliance with the RFCs. :) I would be surprised if there are any other browsers in substantial use on PyPI, with the exception of Safari. _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
