Am 28.04.2010 07:25, schrieb Derek Scherger: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Timothy Brownawell <tbrow...@prjek.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> Is the occasional backslash really that bad? '%' conflicts with >> urlencoding >>> (and '*' would only actually glob things if you have some really weirdly >>> named files), and '?' is probably necessary for file/ssh sync. >> >> I think it's more important to avoid characters that are meaningful in >> URLs (*especially* %) than to avoid characters that are meaningful to >> the shell. People expect to have to quote URLs. Also, I don't like / >> as a separator when it's not traversing a directory-like hierarchy. >> > > Agreed, on all counts. > > >> So, how about this? >> >> protocol:// >> u...@server.host.name/path/to/database?include,include,-exclude,-exclude >> >> should work equally well for mtn (with usher), ssh, and file. Without >> usher, you just leave out the /path part. >> > > +1 (nice and simple)
Ok, I see I get overruled here ;) >> (Also, ~ in the path part should absolutely have the 'go to home >> directory' semantic.) >> > > Agreed here too. > > This proposal doesn't change the meaning of any URL-special characters which > I think is important. Overloading % + ? = or & would be bad as people > generally know what they mean in the context of a URL. We could consider > using the fragment character # in place of the query string separator > character ? but that's probably splitting hairs. This is a shell-special > character too (for comments) but it doesn't seem to apply if there's > non-whitespace immediately preceding it. I think I have to find another shell... $ echo mtn://foo.com#foo zsh: no matches found: mtn://foo.com#foo So if its only zsh and whatever I try here needs escaping anyways, we can simply stick to the more common "?" then... Thomas. -- GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | tommyd3...@jabber.ccc.de | http://thomaskeller.biz Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en
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