Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/10/06 23:25

kchayka wrote:

>>http://www.lakebrunner.co.nz/itinerary+3+-+pure+fishing.php
>
> Encode the "+".

Why? RFC 3986 (STD 66), the Internet-standard on generic URL format,
requires no such thing. The "+" character can be used as such in the
path part of a URL; it's in the "sub-delims" set.

> It does, however, look very much like a database search string, which
> usually uses "+" in place of spaces. If that is the case, you should
> probably use %20 (ASCII space) instead.

Why? If the assumption is correct and if the server-side software can
handle both a plus sign and a space, then surely "+" is more
user-friendly than "%20".

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