Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, the windows and dos version (OS/2 too ?) can't use :, so if we need
> to choose a separator we could as well choose something which does
> create as few as possible problems on most platforms.
> Even if this does mean a slightly different syntax than the classic
> protocol:port URI form... since those directories are a sort of reminder
> where that data came from there's no _strict_ need to mirror the
> original URI imho.
Yes, and there's no _strict_ need to pick a lowest-common-denominator
notation just to make Windows happy either. Like I said, the Windows
version of Wget already has to change ':'s into something else. I don't see
this ':' as any different.
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