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Re: URLEncoder and #

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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.

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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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