title: URL-Encoded Angle Brackets in URL?
body: <p>I'm working on a legacy app and for whatever reason it's trying to stuff URL-encoded angle brackets into a URL. For example, to get a URL ending with "&lt;sometext&gt;":</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://somesite.com/somefolder/%3csometext%3e" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://somesite.com/somefolder/%3csometext%3e</a></p>
  
  <p>When the above URL-encoded URL is fetched, it generates a 400 error (Bad Request) on IIS6 and I can't quite figure out why. Probably something simple, but I'm stumped.</p>
  
  <p>Ideas? Thanks.</p>