Re: On the proliferation of well-known URLs; draft-nottingham-site-meta-01

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:18:17AM -0700, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> This makes sense but I don’t have strong views here. My only concern
> is to get this adopted for host-meta so whatever proves to be the path
> of least resistance works for me.
> 
> On the business of using odd characters, isn’t choosing any ‘*/’
> prefix going to solve your concerns? No site I know allows using ‘/’
> for usernames, short URLs, etc. I’m afraid making the prefix “ugly”
> will cause people not to use it and will make documenting it confusing
> to people who will not be expecting something like that.

But sites do often allow users to have files, so "*/" falls down.
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