Hello Jonathan,

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:33:28 -0500 (CDT) GMT (08/09/2003, 12:33 +0700 GMT),
Jonathan Angliss wrote:

>>> How do you tell TB that the ) is not part of the URL? There is no real
>>> way to tell, as you can feasibly use the ) in a file name for example,

At the end of a filename? That is my question; if it is a legal URL,
then TB must display it the way it does. If it is not legal, TB
shouldn't highlight that character.

www.ritlabs.com)
(www.ritlabs.com)
(http://www.ritlabs.com).
www.ritlabs.com/index.htm)
www.ritlabs.com/products/index.HTM)

Here in the editor, none of the parenthesis are highlighted. I went
back to Dierk's original message, and the ) is highlighted.

>> *Should* the browser encode it correctly and therefore open the page?

> Yes, the browser should encode the ) properly, and chances are it does,
> but if the file doesn't exist on the other side, then you *will* get an
> error.  For example:

   http://netdork.net/index.php)

> That will fail, it'll fail because index.php) doesn't exist on the server,
> however index.php does.

It didn't fail because the ) is not highlighted, neither in my editor
now, nor in your incoming message.

Now I'm confused...

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Thomas.

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