On 7/8/2013 8:33 PM, Alex Bishop wrote:
I imagine that it’s an early Netscape implementation detail that
escaped into the wild. Given that I can still remember pipes in file
URLs 15+ years later, I would not be surprised if other people rely on
this working.
I am certain that we must continue to support this in Firefox in some
cases (URLs passed in on the command line or via DDE). I am not sure
what we'd break by removing support for it for URLs in general. Unless
there is a compelling reason not to support this in general, I'd like to
keep it.
--BDS
