[jdom-interest] verfier.checkNamespaceURI()

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:52 AM -0700 6/25/02, Jason Hunter wrote:
>A patch would be Ok.  I think we shouldn't exclude "unwise" characters.
>
>Seems like "> 127" or "< 33" are bad ranges, as well as the chars < > ".
>

According to RFC 2396 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>:


Other characters are excluded because gateways and other transport 
agents are known to sometimes modify such characters, or they are 
used as delimiters.

unwise = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"

Data corresponding to excluded characters must be escaped in order to 
be properly represented within a URI.

Note the "must". These are not merely deprecated. They are 
specifically forbidden.
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