
400 WebSphere and .NET Coexistence
this restriction can be thwarted by encoding the URL. Encoding takes those
characters outside of the acceptable range and encodes them with characters
that are acceptable to use in a URL. Encoding is a fairly simple process.
Characters that are outside the valid range for URLs are encoded by prefixing
them with a
% symbol, followed by their hexadecimal code. For example, a
space character (ASCII value 32) is encoded as
%20. Some encoders may also
use other special characters when encoding data. For example, the
java.io.URLEncoder uses the
+ (plus) symbol for encoding space characters.
Since encoding is often ...