From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-08 11:08:23
> > * Did you also change the utility.htm target anchor to use %20?
>
> No, I was hoping it would be considered identical. My hope was to keep
> HTMLTidy happy locally without having to go and fix up other parts of
> Boost, possibly breaking other cross-references.
I believe both need to use %20 (see below), but underscore would be safer.
> > But do we know what is actually valid? It is pretty scary if even
> > HTMLTidy can't figure out the "right way". Need to do some research.
>
> I don't know what you mean. HTMLTidy claims the space is illegal and
> is unambiguous about it.
According to RFC1630: <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/references.html#ref-RFC1630>
Spaces and control characters in URLs must be escaped for transmission in HTTP,
as must other disallowed characters.
Jeff