Subj : URL encoding
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Dec 05 2004 03:17 pm

  Re: URL encoding
  By: Angus Mcleod to All on Sat Dec 04 2004 08:10:00

 > modified.  The first script uses an RE directly as in:
 > 
 >      s/([^-_\.!~\*'\(\)A-Z0-9])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/sige;
 > 
 > to encode those parts that are available to it (specifically the artist
 > and album directory names).  The generated script calls my little
 > urlencode program to do the same.

You may be interested in looking at the URI RFC... it includes a regex for
splitting up a URI and mentions which bits need which chars encoded.

Uh... 2396 it is... it contains this gem:
^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#)*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?

Whee!

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