• To: Diana Castillo <diana@h...>
• Subject: Re: sending character '+'
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:05:58 -0500
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Diana Castillo wrote:

> Anyone have an idea why when I send the character '+' using curl, the 
> recipient doesnt recieve that character?
> 

I assume you're "sending" a URL. This isn't really an XML question but 
the answer is simple. + is defined in the URL spec as an escape for the 
space. Sending + is the same as sending %20. If you really want to send 
a + sign in a URL you need to encode it as %2B.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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