On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, John Francis wrote: > > 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.
Right but wrong. A + sign means space within a query string (the part of the URL that comes after a ? sign) but not in the filename part of the URL. Try these for example: http://anders.hultman.nu/ss 4.gif http://anders.hultman.nu/ss+4.gif http://anders.hultman.nu/ss%204.gif anders ------------------------- http://anders.hultman.nu/
