In article <20040721223428.GA384@iup.edu>, Jason McCarty <bclg@iup.edu> wrote:
[...] it is convenient to have a separate syntactic wrapper that delimits the URL and separates it from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation marks that might be mistaken for part of the URL. For this purpose, is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and ">"), along with the prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL. This wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in contexts in which delimiters are already specified.
[...] "
I hope you realize that your URLs did not include the "URL:" prefix recommended above... perhaps more clients could cope if it did (though I have my doubts).
My quote from the RFC was not intended to be a complete treatment of the topic, though I agree that it could mislead one into thinking that <> and URL: were both recommended in the specific context we are discussing here. However, this is getting off-topic for boost, so I will leave it up to you to read the remainder of the appendix I referred to and follow up in personal email if you have further questions. meeroh -- If this message helped you, consider buying an item from my wish list: <http://web.meeroh.org/wishlist>