* Nick Kew wrote:
> > The main difference is this escaping of ' ' to '+'. The reason for
> > this is that while ' ' gets encoded as %20 in paths, it gets encoded
> > as '+' in query strings (afaik for historic reasons). Therefore,
> > languages which interpret the query string (like PHP) might get
> > confused if they receive a %20 in the query string (or at least that
> > was my concern).
>
> That sounds plausible, but I'm not sure. Anyone else?
Nah. Everyone just takes %hh and turns it into an octet. The special
handling takes place for the + sign only, on both sides.
In fact, every script must be prepared to get a %20 from the client, as
well.
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