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Escaping Unsafe Characters
Appendix C LDAP URLs 535
Escaping Unsafe Characters
Any “unsafe” characters in the URL need to be represented by a special sequence
of characters. This is called escaping unsafe characters.
For example, a space is an unsafe character that must be represented as
%20
within
the URL. Thus, the distinguished name
"o=example.com corporation"
must be
encoded as
"o=example.com%20corporation"
.
The following table lists the characters that are considered unsafe within URLs and
provides the associated escape characters to use in place of the unsafe character:
Unsafe Character Escape Characters
space %20
< %3c
> %3e
" %22
# %23
% %25
{ %7b
} %7d
| %7c
\ %5c
^ %5e
~ %7e
[ %5b
] %5d
‘ %60