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URL-encoding

There are a number of special characters that cannot be directly included in the path part of a URL: +, <, >, %, ", /, ? and the space character. These can be encoded as a per cent symbol (%) followed by the hexadecimal value of the character in the ISO-8859 character set. Spaces that represent word boundaries are encoded as plus signs.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
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