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Re: URL string escape codes
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Re: URL string escape codes


  • Subject: Re: URL string escape codes
  • From: David Wright <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:28:21 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jeremy Dronfield wrote:

> Does anyone know the escape code for a carriage return in a URL string?
> I'll be mildly surprised if one exists, but you don't ask you don't get.

The escape codes for characters in URLs are just their hexadecimal
ASCII equivalents preceded by a '%'.

So space becomes , and carriage return (according to my "unix in a
nutshell") becomes .

> I found a reference to linebreaks (for purposes of wrapping long URLs)
> in the online RFC docs, but nothing about carriage returns.

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.html gives perhaps too much
detail.

HTH,
dave
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