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Subject: | another reason for the url encoding.. |
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Date: | Wed, 1 May 2002 20:38:30 +1000 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
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I just remembered one of my reasons: The encoded urls can be reversed, allowing dynamic detection of previously used sites, even if the localdir dir is shared amongst machines (and thus the mirror.lst is not in the local dir). Rob
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