Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: another reason for the url encoding.. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 20:38:30 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Cygwin-Apps" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g41Acb708880 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