SUMMARY: White Space in URL's?

Tim Evans ([email protected])
Fri, 29 Jul 1994 09:46:55 -0400 (EDT)

Earlier, I wrote:

>How can white space be included in URL's in such a way that
>they get interpreted properly? For example, Macintosh ftp
>servers frequently have Mac-type folder names, which can
>have spaces in them. How does one specify an URL to access
>such a folder? Thanks.

Thanks to the following for the unanimous answer:

John Labovitz <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Michael A. Dolan)
[email protected] (Peter Mueller)
[email protected] (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
John Studarus <[email protected]>
Paul Phillips <[email protected]>
Christian L. Mogensen <[email protected]>
Fisher Mark <@fallst.es.dupont.com:[email protected]>

Whitespace (and other non-printing characters) can be represented with
hexadecimal equivalents, preceded by the '%' sign. This, an URL with
"foo bar" in it would be something like:

ftp://hostname/pub/foo%20bar

In my particular case, unfortunately, version 2.1.0 of "Peter's Macintosh
FTP" server refuses such URL's.

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