On Thursday, August 03, 2000, 4:15:33 PM, John Sullivan wrote:
> On Wednesday 2 August 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:08:01PM +0200, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote:
>>> You may type <www.something.com> as well as (www.something.com), but
>>> between [] it doesn't work...
>> Generally because the accepted way of doing it doesn't include []'s. In
>> fact, I think only <>'s is technically correct.
> I'm not aware of any technical standard which mandates the use of
> angle brackets around URIs. The use of encapsulations such as
> <http://www.something.com/> and <URL:http://www.something.com/> are as
> far as I am aware just human<->human conventions.
While I doubt if anybody would take seriously a "mandate" about how to
embed UR* in every client app, the UR* RFCs have _always_ _recommended_ the
use of <> delimiters, e.g.:
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>
"
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APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context
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In addition, there are many occasions when URLs are included in other kinds
of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news messages, or printed
on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to have a separate syntactic
wrapper that delimits the URL and separates it from the rest of the text,
and in particular from punctuation marks that might be mistaken for part of
the URL. For this purpose, is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and
">"), along with the prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of
the URL.
...
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Up through the most recent
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>
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E. Recommendations for Delimiting URI in Context
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URI are often transmitted through formats that do not provide a clear
context for their interpretation. For example, there are many occasions
when URI are included in plain text; examples include text sent in
electronic mail, USENET news messages, and, most importantly, printed on
paper. In such cases, it is important to be able to delimit the URI from
the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation marks that might
be mistaken for part of the URI.
In practice, URI are delimited in a variety of ways, but usually within
double-quotes "http://test.com/", angle brackets <http://test.com/>, or
just using whitespace
...
Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as a
delimiting style for URI that contain whitespace.
...
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