[PATCH 2 of 5] Core: escape "<", ">", and """ in urls

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:49:29AM -0000, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>
> # Date 1263229555 -10800
> # Node ID 186e9471419a07250d144e390b43cd1cf7dcd561
> # Parent  9180ed53bc04c852d88069c1a919799f92d7755d
> Core: escape "<", ">", and """ in urls.
> 
> RFC 2396 requires it, and not escaping them seems to cause problems at
> least with MS Exchange.
> 
> Note well: RFC 3986 obsoletes RFC 2396 and no longer requires characters in
> question to be escaped.  But for compatibility reasons it's probably a good
> idea to escape them anyway.

Just a quick note: I was wrong here.  While RFC 3986 doesn't 
contain rationale for exclusion of these chars it still doesn't 
allow them per ABNF.  I'm going to resubmit updated patch anyway.

Maxim Dounin