> > Hi Steve, > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:10:10 -0800, Steve Larson wrote: > > > So that`s where the %20`s come from. Thanks, I always wondered > > where they came from. > > When you see a %xx in a URL, it's replacing a character that's > restricted. You most often see it with spaces (%20) and plus signs > (%2B) but any ASCII character can be represented this way. The number > is simply the hexadecimal value of the ASCII code for the character.
Incidentally, the viewer-friendly way to represent spaces in a URL is with a + sign, not with a %20. Thus Bird+On+Wire should have worked.
