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==Special Character Handling==
Using the REST service may require that you encode certain characters using the proper URL entities before adding them to a URL. Characters like spaces, slashes, ampersands, and others must be replaced by special codes, which usually consist of a percent sign followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number.
Using the REST service may require that you encode certain characters using the proper URL entities before adding them to a URL. Characters like spaces, slashes, ampersands, and others must be replaced by special codes, which usually consist of a percent sign followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number.



Revision as of 00:37, 19 September 2014

Using the REST service may require that you encode certain characters using the proper URL entities before adding them to a URL. Characters like spaces, slashes, ampersands, and others must be replaced by special codes, which usually consist of a percent sign followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number.

The following table shows the replacements for the most common characters.

Character Encoding
Space %20 or +
* %2A
# %23
& %26
% %25
$ %28
+ %2B
, %2C
/ %2F
: %3A
; %3B
< %3C
= %3D
> %3E
? %3F
@ %40
[ %5B
] %5D
~ %7E