In article , Mayayana
wrote:


| Perhaps you should do some research, and read the following:
| " The angle-bracket "" and "" and double-quote (") characters are
| excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
| text documents and protocol fields. The character "#" is excluded
| because it is used to delimit a URI from a fragment identifier in URI
| references (Section 4). The percent character "%" is excluded because
| it is used for the encoding of escaped characters.
|

He's just talking about what can't be used in a
URL because it's used in HTML. In HTML code
you might have something like
A HREF="www.dropbox.com"dropbox/A

it's talking about text, not html.

But that's in the code itself. Newsreaders and email
programs recognize a URL by the syntax and act
accordingly.

nope

Your addition of is irrelevant. It's
not proper, readable HTML and it would make no
difference if it were, just as my HTML snippet above
will show as plain text in this post because this post
is not HTML.

it's not html. it's *text*, and not just newsreaders or email apps
either.

You could just as easily have used
*www.dropbox.com* or (www.dropbox.com). The
extra marks serve no purpose. (Though some
marks may prevent your newsreadr from recognizing
the line as a link.)

even less likely to work.

| ...and why would the above clickable URL contained, and delimited by
| angle-brackets be less secure than the undelimited version below?
| http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

It's not. I didn't mean to complicate things. I was
just noting that your brackets are superfluous and
that it's easier to copy the URL without them. Not to
worry. If you find it convenient it's no big deal.

they're not superfluous.

The security part is not directly related. I use a
number of browsers
and clicking a link in email or a newsgroup post will
activate the default browser. I happen to have IE set
as the default, which I don't allow to go online. I block
it at the firewall. Why? Because IE is profoundly unsafe
and quirky in rendering webpages. But it's good for using
on Windows. I like to use it for reading HTML files locally.
It's quick and lightweight. I also don't want to risk
accidentally clicking a link in something without meaning to.
I also don't want software going online without asking.
By setting IE as the default I have a good reader for local
HTML files while I also block anything going online that I
didn't specifically intend to do so.

Thus, when someone sends or posts a link, I copy
it and paste into Firefox or Pale Moon.

I don't know if you have default programs on Mac.

of course there are. don't be stupid.

I guess you probably don't even see the full file names.

what ever gave you that idea???

On Windows, the default program is automatically
called for a specific file extension. So for instance, if
I install software that then tries to call home without
asking, that will call up my default browser, which is
IE, which will then show an error window saying that
it's unable to reach the website. Likewise, if I
accidentally click a link in an email without meaning
to, that will call IE which will be unable to reach the link.
Thus, my arrangement is handy for both privacy and
security.

and clumsiness.