[ic] discussion of patch for IC compatibility with NS 7

[Schuyler W Langdon]

Schuyler Langdon wrote:
> Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com) wrote
> > > > you prevent a *real* sequence that meant what it said (%253a) from
> > > > being decoded improperly?
>  <snip>
>
> There is a case where these colons in the scan url could be encoded twice.
> If your browser did encode the colons for the link produced by the more
tag,
> this would not really be a problem. However, I believe if you were to use
> the history-scan to "return to shopping" to this url, the area tag inside
> the history-scan tag will encode the %3a to %253a which will definately be
a
> problem. History-scan could be modified to s/%3a/:/ig the url string or
> maybe even better, entirely unencode it before passing it to the area tag.
>

Or maybe not, I actually tried it and the url doesn't seem to be encoded
when returned from the session.

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Schuyler Langdon
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