Re: [htdig] searching on plus symbols

[Jim C. <li...@yg...>]

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 08:39 PM, ht...@ch... wrote:

> I am trying to enable searching on + symbols and am not having any 
> luck so far.
> I added the following to my config file:
> extra_word_characters:   +
> I didn't change valid punctuation.
...
> $ QUERY_STRING="method=and&words=VMS+UNIX"
...
> $ QUERY_STRING="method=and&words=VMS&043;UNIX"

For URL encoding you need to use a '%' followed by the hex 
representation. Try the following.

$ QUERY_STRING="method=and&words=VMS%2BUNIX"


Jim