Re: Underscores in URLS

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:16:54PM +0000, Blue Lang wrote:
>
> I know that this is addressed fairly frequently on this list, and I was
> wondering if the rule that says 'no underscores in URLs' is inclusive of
> the file name?

No. The file name is not governed by DNS rules. Only the host name is.

> In other words, is this legal:
>
> http://some.host.com/some_file.html

Yes. Assuming that underscores are in fact legal in the OS running on
some.host.com.

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