> | > and if they do, why are they inside <> markers?
> | Because that's the syntax of a URL ...
>
> Hmm. This last I don't buy. I, too, have read the spec (which one was it?)
> which said that URL's quoted outside of HTML should me inside <>s, but this
> is probably the first time I've _ever_ seen one. I'd assumed that attempted
> convention had failed to breed outside of captivity. That markup was, as
> I recall and I could be wrong, for denoting URLs in contexts like plain text,
> but this header is, presumably, defined to have a URL as its value and doesn't
> need them.
>
Hmm - the RFC that I read recommended that URLs outside of HTML should be
of the form:
<URL:blah>
where blah was the URL.
As for never seeing it - I've used that format for approximately 7 years in
my .signature and my FAQs...
-- Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org <URL:http://www.tclfaq.wservice.com/> <*> O- "We are all Kosh." Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
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