irc uri (was Re: [TxMt] Re: Screenwriting Bundle / Looking for Help)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Grant Hollingworth wrote:

> * Jacob Rus <jrus at hcs.harvard.edu> [2006-12-06 17:24]:
>> irc://irc.freenode.net/##textmate
>
> I hardly ever see IRC URIs, so I tried this one.  open(1) doesn't  
> like it because it's not actually valid: the '#' is reserved as the  
> fragment delimiter, so when open sees two of them it decides the  
> URI must actually be a file name.
>
Actually I am not sure the IRC scheme has ever been officially  
approved, whatever that would mean, perhaps I'm mistaken.
In any case, open irc://irc.freenode.net/#textmate redirects to the  
correct thing (don't ask).

> Encoding gives the uglier irc://irc.freenode.net/#%23textmate.   
> Actually, the channel name isn't a fragment, so it should really be  
> irc://irc.freenode.net/%23%23textmate.
>
> Ugly, but it works.
>
> And yes, I realize I just posted this to a thread about off-topic  
> posts.

Haris