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Subject:Re: Rear Hatch Latch Picture
From:JD Foster
Date:Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:37:00 -0700

Almost, but no cigar.  =)  The percent symbol, followed by a two-digit
hexadecimal code, is used to encode special characters.  The space
"character" is represented by "%20", so to get our corrected URL:

http://home.ix.netcom.com/~lbusch/Hatch%20Latch3.jpg

More on this at (for those interested geeks in the crowd):
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

Cheers,
JD

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, Ryan" <RMiller@STANTEC.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Rear Hatch Latch Picture

> Another way to get around spaces in a URL is to add a % where the space
> would be. Web servers understand this symbol to represent a space.
>
> Ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Pollard [mailto:poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Rear Hatch Latch Picture
>
>
> if you can't get that link to work... do this:
>
> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~lbusch/
>
> and click on the link to the hatch latch.
>
> (there is a space in the name, that IE doesn't like in the link you sent)
>
> > http://home.ix.netcom.com/~lbusch/Hatch Latch3.jpg
>