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Re: URLEncoder and #

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On 6/20/2014 11:22 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 6/20/2014 8:06 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:30:23 +0100, Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
>> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>
>>>>
>>>> The AppVisor people are complaining about URLs containing # saying
>>>> they need to be URLEncoded.  Surely that is not true.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think it probably is true.
>>
>> If wanted to include # in a file name you would encode it, but if you
>> meant it to introduce an anchor on the page you would not, right?
>>
>
> If by "file name" you mean the path part of the URI, then yes.  However
> watch out for including other special characters in the anchor:
>
> http://foo.com/path#my#1anchor
>
> Will confuse most parsers and is probably a syntax error anyway.  Also
> watch out for the query part of the URI, which needs to be encoded
> differently.
>
> http://foo.com/path?a=#1,b=#2#anchor
>
> Is also incorrectly encoded.

I think a lot of the confusion about this class comes from its name.

Contrary to its name it is not used to encode URL's.

It is documented. Java docs says:

<quote>
Utility class for HTML form encoding. This class contains static methods 
for converting a String to the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME 
format. For more information about HTML form encoding, consult the HTML 
specification.
</quote>

But just the name gives people the wrong associations.

Arne

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URLEncoder and # Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-06-18 02:37 -0700
  Re: URLEncoder and # Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2014-06-18 11:30 +0100
    Re: URLEncoder and # Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-06-20 08:06 -0700
      Re: URLEncoder and # markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-06-20 08:22 -0700
        Re: URLEncoder and # Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-06-21 23:10 -0400
  Re: URLEncoder and # Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-06-18 16:42 +0200
  Re: URLEncoder and # Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-06-18 18:50 -0700

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