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Re: How do I read a regex address?

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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:09:01 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, Paul Gilmartin via curl-users wrote:

> It should. Curl should introduce no constraints on URL syntax
> beyond those documentd in RFC 1738.
>
> And the published URL should have beeen so encoded. If I Copy
> the URL from the Firefox URL field it appears propeerly encoded as:
> https://uupdump.net/known.php?q=regex:%5B2-9%5D%5Cd%7B4%7D%5C.

When we originally added support for the "globbing" characters [] and {} we
did that becasue the URI syntax specifically has them special and they should
be encoded if wanted "literally".

But the days of a clear definition of what a URL is or should work, is long
gone. The option to disable the globbing is often necessary to use.

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