Hello,
I had a report from my users today that Mozillas editor application
substitutes a ~ in an URL with %7E no matter what. True :)

I know that the ~ is not an allowed character in URLs as stated in RFC1738.
In RFC2396  though, the ~, amongst other chars, is declared as save and no
need to be encoded.
You might want to have a look at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tilde.html

So mozilla encoding ~ as %7E is correct by the book BUT the link doesn't
work with all webservers afterwards...

Did anyone found a solution to this problem other than configuring every
webserver (especially IIS *urghs*) to accept %7E in URLs?

Thanks in Advance! /Carsten

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