# Re: <'s for URLs

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Sun, 17 Oct 1993 09:47:29 PDT

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    From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>

    Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 09:47:29 PDT

    In-Reply-To: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>

    To: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>, uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: <'s for URLs

But as soon as I convert unstructured text into HTML, perhaps by
cutting and pasting, these angle brackets become dangerous. Any
other characters would do better, even &.

Alternatively, if the < > were separated from the URL string by
spaces, there'd be no parsing problem. But that's rather frail.

Regards,

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    Terry Allen  (terry@ora.com)
    Editor, Digital Media Group
    O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
    Sebastopol, Calif., 95472

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