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thatguy Posts: 125 Joined: 6/17/2003 Status: offline	Spaces in URL - 7/28/2006 9:22:10 I know that generally you don't put spaces in your URL. But I can't remember why. People always put dashes or underscores. Anyway, I accidently put a space in one of my folders and I didn't realize it until I was checking Google and saw the '%20' in my URL. Now that it is indexed, I don't really want to change it. But I was wondering why it would matter anyway. Is it because you don't want people to type %20 for the type in traffic? I don't think I need to worry about type in traffic down to a specific folder. At least not for this site at this point in time. Is there any other reason? _____________________________ Everyone wants peace and they are willing to fight for it.


Taz Posts: 2893 Joined: 7/6/2004 From: U.K (Formerly outer space.) Status: offline	RE: Spaces in URL - 7/28/2006 9:58:58 %20 is more characters than one - or _ so it's a shorter URL and easier to remember & work with. _____________________________ Smiley T-Shirts and other Geeky fun stuff, Smileys and phpbb Smiley paks. (in reply to thatguy)


womble Posts: 5702 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: Spaces in URL - 7/28/2006 10:10:59 It's because of the different ways different operating systems handle filenames - specifically Unix operating systems don't allow spaces. Using an underscore or a hyphen is your best chance of making sure your pages still work if you move to a different server with a different OS. This has come up before and I dug out a couple of articles on filenaming that might be useful here. _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ ~~ Erase hate. Practice love. ~~ (in reply to thatguy)