[OFF] Filename encoding on the net
[OFF] Filename encoding on the net
- Subject: [OFF] Filename encoding on the net
- From: Jolly Roger <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:56:27 -0500
On web and ftp servers (or maybe it's done by ftp clients), the slash
character, for example, is converted to / in a filename. I know enough to
have figured out on my own that the % is a token that means "the following
two characters are a hexadecimal notation for the character code for an
ASCII character". But I'd like more information on the official name for
this system, how this system came to be, what standard it follows, the exact
range of characters translated, etc. (I may end up writing a little applet
that translates file names using this system.) Can someone point me to
documentation describing how this type of filename encoding works on the
net?
JR