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Re: browsers translate characters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Asher Perlman)
Wed Jun 7 22:37:42 1995
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 22:29:40 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: ericp@well.com
From: Eric Asher Perlman <ericp@well.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Rick Stout wrote:
> I've been working on a CGI script (in C) and discovered that
> forward slashes put into a text field on a form get received
> at the server as the string "%2F". (And that tildes (~) are
> received as "%7E" and colons as "%3A".)
These are Hex Escapes (or something like that)... That is a character
encoded. No matter what %7E should translate to ~.....etc.
-eric
