Re: PingBack: proposed XML server list format + central web service demo

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From: Simon Willison (simon@incutio.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 22:59:11 BST

At 22:19 03/09/2002 +0100, Stuart Langridge wrote:

>Simon Willison spoo'd forth:
> > http://www.bath.ac.uk/~cs1spw/blog/[*]
> >
> > http://[*].incutio.com/[*]
>
>I'm unclear as to why we need the square brackets? Why not just *, as
>in filename globbing?

Because * is a valid part of a URL - it's used on sites like
www.archive.org. [ and ] aren't allowed in URLs (as far as I can tell), but
* is the standard wildcard character for globbing, so I combined the two.

Cheers,

Simon 

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