Special characters (#,@,:) in URLs

Created Jun 13, 2002 Modified Jul 15, 2026

Article 102

Special characters (#,@,:) in URLs

Special characters as #,@,: in URLs have to be hex encoded.

Example: Your password is ### It gets encoded to ftp://user:%23%23%23@host.com where 23 is the hex value (0x23) of '#'

Character Hex Conversion
# %23
space %20
@ %40

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