I am making a website with articles, and I need the articles to have “friendly” URLs, based on the title. For example, if the title of my article is “Article Test”, I would like the URL to be http://www.example.com/articles/article_test. However, article titles (as any string) can contain multiple special characters that would not be possible … Read more
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Does anyone know the full list of characters that can be used within a GET without being encoded? At the moment I am using A-Z a-z and 0-9… but I am looking to find out the full list. I am also interested into if there is a specification released for the up coming addition of … Read more
I am aware that a + in the query string of a URL represents a space. Is this also the case outside of the query string region? That is to say, does the following URL: http://a.com/a+b/c actually represent: http://a.com/a b/c (and thus need to be encoded if it should actually be a +), or does … Read more
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I noticed that HTTP://STACKOVERFLOW.COM/QUESTIONS/ASK and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask both works fine – actually the previous one is converted to lowercase. I think that this makes sense for the user. If I look at Google then this URL works fine: http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/corporate/index.html but this one with “ABOUT” is not working: http://www.google.com/intl/en/ABOUT/corporate/index.html Should the URL be case sensitive? 18 Answers … Read more
If I try to pass a URL to curl that contains brackets, it fails with an error: $ curl ‘http://www.google.com/?TEST[]=1’ curl: (3) [globbing] illegal character in range specification at pos 29 However, if I escape both brackets, it appears to work: $ curl ‘http://www.google.com/?TEST\[\]=1’ Interestingly, I use a backslash to escape only the first bracket … Read more
When should a trailing slash be used in a URL? For example – should my URL look like /about-us/ or like /about-us? I am fully aware of the SEO-related issues – duplicate content and the canonical thing; I’m trying to figure out which one I should use in the context of serving pages correctly alone. … Read more
In a URL, what does the %2C encoding mean and it uses?. 7 s 7 Check out http://www.asciitable.com/ Look at the Hx, (Hex) column; 2C maps to , Any unusual encoding can be checked this way +—-+—–+—-+—–+—-+—–+—-+—–+ | Hx | Chr | Hx | Chr | Hx | Chr | Hx | Chr | +—-+—–+—-+—–+—-+—–+—-+—–+ … Read more
