Re: Allow Whitespace in L<> URLs?

[email protected] (Ricardo Signes) Thu, 8 Jan 2015 16:00:09 -0500

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* "David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> [2015-01-08T13:42:10]
> I think that is probably sane, but maybe there are other opinions? Should we
> allow whitespace in L<> URLs? If so, I think we would just change \S to .

I didn't scrutinize the regexp (which is present in perlpodspec) closely, but
URLs may not contain unescape spaces, so I think there's no reason to allow it.

  L<foo bar|http://baz-bar>    should be okay
  L<foo bar|http://baz bar>    should not
  L<foo bar | http://baz-bar>  unclear from quick skim of spec

I assume the second case is what came up.  It's not a valid URI, by my reading
of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A

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rjbs

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