ASCII control chars in URLs

[email protected] Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:42:04 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.fnord
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

is there a good reason why all ASCII control chars should be allowed in URLs?
(After %-decoding, of course.) They can seriously mess up log files,
as in http://some.host.org/broken%0Alog

Bye,
	Peter
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