On Sat, Aug 10, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: White spaces in URLs.": > > Since the standards define 'url encoding' (don't remember the precise > > term or standard right now, sorry), I doubt it. > > > > IIRC, spaces in URLs are encoded as %20. > > Or as plus signs (+).
If I remember correctly (and please correct me if I'm wrong because I also don't have the HTTP/URI RFCs handy), "+" isn't a synonym for a space. Only some *CGI scripts* convert a + to a space, similarly to the way they also treat "&" specially, but you can only use such a "+" after the "?" of a GET request to a CGI, and only if the CGI knows this transformation. For example, try browsing http://nadav.harel.org.il/hi%20there And it will tell you: "The requested URL /hi there was not found on this server." with the %20 converted to a space. With a +, this doesn't happen: "The requested URL /hi+there was not found on this server." -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Aug 10 2002, 2 Elul 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I want to be a human being, not a human http://nadav.harel.org.il |doing -- Scatman John ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
