On Thu 18 Mar, 1999, tkaczma@gryf.net wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, James R Grinter wrote:

...

host
    The fully qualified domain name of a network host, or its IP
    address as a set of four decimal digit groups separated by
    ".".

By this measure hostnames which are not fully qualified are illegal. Thus http://somebox/ is illegal whereas http://somebox.mathworks.com/ is legal at least from the host naming perspective.

Correct.

Now, could someone remind me about the detrimental effects of leaving the trailing '/' off directory URL's and the (il)legality of the use of '~'s in URLs..?

Tom

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