[pdftex] Tilde character in url.

[Martin Schröder]

2010/4/9 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>:
> In plain pdftex I am typing the following url:
> \url{http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland}
> {http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland}

Stop using ~ in URLs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs

I was going to quote http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tilde.html
but it has a tilde in its URL. :-}

Best
    Martin

PS: Your problem is not pdftex specific.