Tuesday, July 1, 2008

URL Encodings

URLs use the following encoding for characters that are not numbers or letters:

Character Description Usage Encoding
space %20
; semicolon reserved %3b
/ slash reserved %2f
? question mark reserved %3f
: colon reserved %3a
@ at sign reserved %40
= equals sign reserved %3d
& ampersand reserved %26
< Less-than sign unsafe %3c
> Greater-than sign unsafe %3e
double quote unsafe %22
# hash symbol unsafe %23
% percent unsafe %25
{ left curly brace unsafe %7b
} right curly brace unsafe %7d
| vertical bar unsafe %7c
\ backslash unsafe %5c
^ caret unsafe %5e
~ tilde unsafe %7e
[ left square bracket unsafe %5b
] right square bracket unsafe %5d
' single quote unsafe %60

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