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| author | Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com> | 2017-10-19 02:35:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com> | 2017-10-19 05:15:45 +0300 |
| commit | efbb9cfb7b6ebc8a0c724d103c6e1063e049f205 (patch) | |
| tree | ef87704ad9311202025fada690c4d4e7ae5cdcc8 /doc | |
| parent | 9c71fb0de2f0a7482b1a59c673142981ecdab26f (diff) | |
Document converting `+` to `%2B` in an API query parameter
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diff --git a/doc/api/README.md b/doc/api/README.md index 3fd4c97e536..1ec85b71213 100644 --- a/doc/api/README.md +++ b/doc/api/README.md @@ -441,6 +441,23 @@ Content-Type: application/json } ``` +## Encoding `+` in ISO 8601 dates + +If you need to include a `+` in a query parameter, you may need to use `%2B` instead due +a [W3 recommendation]((http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_URI_Recommentations.html) that +causes a `+` to be interpreted as a space. For example, in an ISO 8601 date, you may want to pass +a time in Mountain Standard Time, such as: + +``` +2017-10-17T23:11:13.000+05:30 +``` + +The correct encoding for the query parameter would be: + +``` +2017-10-17T23:11:13.000%2B05:30 +``` + ## Clients There are many unofficial GitLab API Clients for most of the popular |