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Re: Validate URL

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Subject: Re: Validate URL
From: Matthias Buercher <reader at belle-nuit dot com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:02:17 +0200
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what is the encoding to be used to encode with %? is it latin1 or utf8?

matthias

On 31 août 06, at 09:37, Phil M wrote:

To escape an non-alphanumeric character, you are suppose to use the "%" symbol and add the Hexadecimal value. For example, instead of seeing the space character in an URL, you would see it encoded with the sequence "%20".

So you can include spaces in URLs (as long as they are encoded). Now some browsers may accept a URL with spaces and other characters, but these are "features" (flaws) because they will usually cause more problems than they are worth.

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