Re: Re(2): URL string escape codes
Re: Re(2): URL string escape codes
- Subject: Re: Re(2): URL string escape codes
- From: David Wright <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:37:37 +0100 (BST)
Hi Jens,
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>> Does anyone know the escape code for a carriage return in a URL string?
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Now I wanna know! -Is it "carriage" or "carrige" ?
It's 'carriage' as in 'typewriter carriage'. I'm sure there are a few
people on this list that remember those ;-)
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>> I'll be mildly surprised if one exists, but you don't ask you don't get.
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>The escape codes for characters in URLs are just their hexadecimal
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>ASCII equivalents preceded by a '%'.
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>So space becomes , and carriage return (according to my "unix in a
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>nutshell") becomes
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I'd like to add that '+' becomes space as well, but since you've read the
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RFCs already, you should know that.
That's only true for the query string though: "Within the query
string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand notation for a space
... This method was used to make query URIs easier to pass in systems
which did not allow spaces.".
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Furthermore, reading the RFCs should be enough.
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If it's not in the RFCs, it's probably because not expected to be
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implemented. ;)
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Love,
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Jens
Cheers,
dave
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