Re: browsers translate characters?

At 10:36 PM 6/7/95 +0500, Eric Asher Perlman wrote:
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>
>On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Rick Stout wrote:
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>> 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.

I assume these map to ASCII.  Does anyone know where there is a 
reference with these values?

-Rick
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-Rick Stout
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Received on Thursday, 8 June 1995 09:13:10 UTC