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What is wrong with spaces in URLs?

• eCa 13y ago
  You need an (implicit or explicit) url encoding for it to work. The actual link to the linked article is[1] which is quite ugly, at least imho. Much easier for everyone involved to just stick a dash in there. [1] http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
  • thorum 13y ago
    I think somewhere along the way my brain started processing %20 as a space, because I don't even notice anymore.
    • sedev 13y ago
      It might also be that browsers have started displaying it as a space - my Firefox does, for example (until you select it - copy-pasting it preserves the %20).