OH, OK. Encode is for AFTER we've compressed to make sure that the compressed filename is made up of only "safe" characters.

OK, but now that compression...

The filename is made up of codes that tell what is in the file. Fortunately, the structure is well defined. The order of the codes is fixed. But they may be of varying lengths and composition.

For example:

2006-asdf-qwerty-123_456_789-

where we know in advance that the filename field separator is a dash, the first code is the year the file was created, the second is a code for the subject, the third is a code for the author, and the fourth will be references to chemicals mentioned in the work, but this list can have a varying number of members. For xample.




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In reply to Re^6: URL string compression? by punch_card_don
in thread URL string compression? by punch_card_don

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