- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 10:53:18 -0400
- To: rick@cts.com
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
In message <m0sJhOQ-00000iC@crash.cts.com>, Rick Stout writes: >At 10:36 PM 6/7/95 +0500, Eric Asher Perlman wrote: >> >> >>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. > >I assume these map to ASCII. Does anyone know where there is a >reference with these values? Yes, they reference ASCII codes. Try "man ascii" on most unix boxes. An exhaustive list (though in decimal, rather than handy hexadecimal, and including ISO-8859-1 as well as 7-bit ascii) is in the current draft of the HTML 2.0 spec: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_12.html#SEC98 Dan
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