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		TZubiri 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can use newline characters in URLs They are not, but you can encode them, if you encode whitespace characters, you included whitespace in a URL. One of the requirement of URLs is that it needs to be transmissible over paper or aural media, so arbitrary octets and the unused portion of ASCII are not legal either.

yndoendo 54 days ago [–]

Don't forget about pigeon packets. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

TZubiri 54 days ago | [–]

Seems to be RFC 1149, btw, (what you linked is about Pigeon QoS.)

Somwhere after DNS IP and SMTP, but still before HTTP(1.0).

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