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

Fri Aug 6 03:38:44 UTC 2004

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Taavi Burns wrote:

> The % notation in the URL is a way of escaping arbitrary ASCII characters.
> ASCII 0x20 is the space character.  I imagine that the "correct" way to
> embed % into a URL is to use %25 (because % is 0x25).

and if you want to test the limits of the system try an url that contains 
%00 (several times).

Peter
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