On 05Jan2021 22:41, Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: >That said, AIUI, there's nothing stopping a web server from using >whatever separators it wants. Everything after the domain name is up to >the web server to interpret; it just happens that most early web servers >ran on Unix/Posix/Linux boxes and mapped URLs fairly directly to parts >of the file system, and "/" was more natural than anything else.
Well, not really. On the server side something has to map the URL local part to a file path or some handler, and that could use whatever separators it likes. However, HTML relative URLs rely on '/' as a separator to resolve correctly. You can't change that without breaking the text web because relative URLs are resolved by browsers, not servers. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/G53HY2NDDGS4MJT3QDSEAL5YIP5YYD3F/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
