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another reason for the url encoding..
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 20:38:30 +1000
- Subject: another reason for the url encoding..
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