passing "%20" in a url to Perl via CGI

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:53:51PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've got an odd problem... I am trying to pass file and directory 
> names over a link by using (as an example):
> 
> http://192.168.1.99/cgi-bin/show-dirs.cgi?file_name=on-screen%20ping%20pong[1]
> 
> Where the file name is in fact:
> 
> on-screen%20ping%20pong[1]

If you have a literal "%" in the string you want submitted in a URL, you
need to escape it as "%25" [in the same way as a space is escaped as
"%20".]  So your URL should be:

...?filename=on-screen%2520ping%2520pong[1]

   - Ian
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