[Let's try that again without accidentally hitting send part way through...] David Paleino wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Il giorno Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:48:40 +0300 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juhani@kaijanaho.fi> ha scritto:
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The plus sign is URL-speak for a space.I've seen this behaviour only on search engines. Could you point me to the spec you all are talking about? :)
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html :"Within the query string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand notation for a space. Therefore, real plus signs must be encoded. This method was used to make query URIs easier to pass in systems which did not allow spaces."
There may well be a more "official" description of the behaviour, but it's not the easiest thing to search for :-)
Adam