I had the same question and more, and though this thread is old, it is still a good one, so in summary for SSRS 2008R2 I found… Situations You want to use a value from a URL to look up data You want to display a parameter from a URL in a report You want … Read more
Yes, it is valid. Only the first ? in a URL has significance, any after it are treated as literal question marks: The query component is indicated by the first question mark (“?”) character and terminated by a number sign (“#”) character or by the end of the URI. … The characters slash (“/”) and … Read more
The path segment . is typically used at the begin of relative path references and are removed during the reference resolution, i.e. the process of resolving a relative URI reference to an absolute URI: The path segments “.” and “..“, also known as dot-segments, are defined for relative reference within the path name hierarchy. They … Read more
Here are the URL components: http://www.example.com/en/public/img/logo.gif \__/ \_____________/\_____________________/ #1 #2 #3 scheme/protocol host path A URL is called an absolute URL if it begins with the scheme and scheme specific part (here // after http:). Anything else is a relative URL. A URL path is called an absolute URL path if it begins with a … Read more
That a character is reserved within a generic URL component doesn’t mean it must be escaped when it appears within the component or within data in the component. The character must also be defined as a delimiter within the generic or scheme-specific syntax and the appearance of the character must be within data. The current … Read more
To quote section 2.3 of RFC 3986: Characters that are allowed in a URI, but do not have a reserved purpose, are called unreserved. These include uppercase and lowercase letters, decimal digits, hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde. ALPHA DIGIT “-” / “.” / “_” / “~” Note that RFC 3986 lists fewer reserved punctuation marks … Read more
According to W3’s “HTML and URLs” they should: There may be URLs, or parts of URLs, where case doesn’t matter, but identifying these may not be easy. Users should always consider that URLs are case-sensitive.
You need to escape the slashes as %2F.
It is not a question of preference. /base and /base/ have different semantics. In many cases, the difference is unimportant. But it is important when there are relative URLs. child relative to /base/ is /base/child. child relative to /base is (perhaps surprisingly) /child.
With HTML5 you can modify the url without reloading: If you want to make a new post in the browser’s history (i.e. back button will work) window.history.pushState(‘Object’, ‘Title’, ‘/new-url’); If you just want to change the url without being able to go back window.history.replaceState(‘Object’, ‘Title’, ‘/another-new-url’); The object can be used for ajax navigation: window.history.pushState({ … Read more