=head1 NAME
-perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/28 04:17:27 $)
+perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2002/04/07 18:46:13 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The best source of detailed information on URI encoding is RFC 2396.
Basically, the following substitutions do it:
- s/([^\w()'*~!.-])/sprintf '%%%02x', $1/eg; # encode
+ s/([^\w()'*~!.-])/sprintf '%%%02x', ord $1/eg; # encode
s/%([A-Fa-f\d]{2})/chr hex $1/eg; # decode