"Ian Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Most (all?) of the escape sequences within URLs should be decoded
> before transforming to an external file-name.

All, I'd say.  Even now u->file and u->dir are not URL-encoded.  They
get reencoded later, by url_filename.

> The point between the two is my "internal" or "ideal" file-name, but
> the two steps can be combined.

I see what you mean.  I guess u->file and u->dir constitute "internal"
file names, and whatever url_filename() returns is external?

> I guess we'll have to check back in the mail archives to find out
> the original argument for the %->@ patch. The ChangeLog entry is
> dated 1997-01-18.

I'll check my personal archives.  At that time the "patches" list was
not established, and many people were sending patches to me directly.

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