C.2. Escaping Unsafe Characters
C.2. Escaping Unsafe Characters Any unsafe characters in the URL need to be escaped, or substituted with a special sequence of characters. For example, a space is an unsafe character that must be represented as %20 within the URL. Thus, the distinguished name o=example.com corporation must be encoded as o=example.com%20corporation . The following table lists the characters that are considered unsafe within URLs and provides the associated escape characters to use in place of the unsafe character: Unsafe Character Escape Characters space %20 < %3c > %3e " %22 # %23 % %25 { %7b } %7d | %7c \ %5c ^ %5e ~ %7e [ %5b ] %5d ` %60