or curl dict://dict.org/d:Blowing\
Rock:gaz2k-places<http://dict.org/d:Blowing%20Rock:gaz2k-places>

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml curl users <
jn.ml.crlu.36_at_letterboxes.org> wrote:

> 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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