Protocols/MSNP/URL Encode
| MSNP Protocol |
| Introduction • Terms • Clients |
| Reference |
| Error List • Commands • Relying Party Suite • Spotlife |
| Services |
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| Protocol Versions |
| Version 21 |
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| Version 12 |
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| Version 2 |
| MSNC |
| Introduction • P2P • Object Descriptor • Display Pictures • File Transfer |
| Scenarios |
| Microsoft Messenger for Mac |
| MSNP on WebTV (MSNTV) |
Named because its original use was to encode special characters in URLs, URL encoding enables the use of otherwise non-transmittable characters in the textual protocol stream. Non-encoded characters, except the percent sign, are transmitted as-is, while characters needing encoding (e.g. space, newline, the percent sign itself) are represented as %xx where xx is the hexadecimal value of the octet to be encoded.
See RFC3986:2.1 for more details.