Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

Escaping Unsafe Characters

Unsafe characters in a URL must be represented by a special sequence of characters. The following table lists the characters that are unsafe within URLs, and provides the associated escape characters to use in place of the unsafe character.

Table 3–2 Characters That Are Unsafe Within URLs

Unsafe Character 

Escape Characters 

space 

%20 

%3c 

\> 

%3e 

%22 

%23 

%25 

%7b 

%7d 

%7c 

\\ 

%5c 

%5e 

%7e 

%5b 

%5d 

” 

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