denver_work_at_comcast.net wrote:

>Gisle, Dan, and others, 8-29-13 922 am
>
>Greetings. When I try:
>curl dict://dict.org/"d:Blowing Rock:gaz2k-places"

Maybe moving the opening quote would help, eg:

 curl "dict://dict.org/d:Blowing Rock:gaz2k-places"

However there's already an established way to cope with spaces in URLs, so
how about

 curl dict://dict.org/d:Blowing%20Rock:gaz2k-places

The "%20" means: the character whose ascii code is 20 (hexadecimal) ie 2 x
16 plus 0 = (decimal) 32... which is a space. You see %nn values in browser
urls quite often, for example for wikipedia pages:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)‎

is actually written in URL form as:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%281959_film%29

so in this case the %28 and %29 represent the opening and closing brackets.

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