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encoding for Query String.
Should be confirmed by looking for documentation about CGI and protocol
HTTP et URL

So, it's expired documentation but.... (from quick search).....


Coar, et al.                 INTERNET-DRAFT                     [Page
5]
                                 CGI/1.1      Expires: 29 November, 1998
   An alternate "shortcut" encoding for representing the space character
   exists and is in common use. Scripts MUST be prepared to recognise
   both '+' and '%20' as an encoded space in a URL.   
   Note that some unsafe characters may have different semantics if they
   are encoded. The definition of which characters are unsafe depends on
   the context. See section 2.2 of RFC 1738 [4] for authoritative
   treatment of this issue.   


from :
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/draft-coar-cgi-v11-00.txt


jean



adam wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
> could somebody answer a this for me and sooth my addled grey matter:
> 
> why does the following :
> 
> System.out.println(java.net.URLEncoder.encode("?dave=shep&amount=1&Personid=PIDLBWWCPWDUMO4/4/2000
> 2:24:09 PM"));
> 
> produce
> 
> %3Fdave%3Dshep%26amount%3D1%26Personid%3DPIDLBWWCPWDUMO4%2F4%2F2000+2%3A24%3A09+PM
> 
> NOTE the '+' character instead of spaces which seems to me very
> un-encoded.... i would have expected %20
> 
> thanks in advance
> adam
> adam at beenz.com
> director of new technologies
>     -- beenzlab --

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