DonFrench wrote: > It is perfectly legal for a URL to contain an embedded space in > certain situations, such as in this example: > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.265632,+-122.2468(10:33 > PM)&iwloc=A&hl=en.
The IETF would disagree with your assertion: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 Note that the space is not in the reserved character set (section 2.2) or the unreserved character set (section 2.3), and so therefore is not legal in a URL without being encoded. For a more readable summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_encoding If you have another authority that says spaces are legal in URLs, point it out! -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, One Low Price! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
