Communication and Control, cont’d
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$ | Dollar | 24 | 36 |
& | Ampersand | 26 | 38 |
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+ | Plus | 2B | 43 |
, | Comma | 2C | 44 |
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/ | Forward slash / virgule | 2F | 47 |
: | Colon | 3A | 58 |
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; | 3B | 59 | |
= | Equal | 3D | 61 |
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? | Question mark | 3F | 63 |
@ | “At” symbol | 40 | 64 |
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Unsafe characters
URLs use some characters for “special use” in defining their syntax and should be encoded. For various reasons, these characters present the possibility of being misunderstood within a URL, and are therefore considered “unsafe”.
The table below lists unsafe characters.
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| Space | 20 | 32 |
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" " | Quotation marks | 22 | 34 |
< | “Less than” symbol | 3C | 60 |
> | “Greater than” symbol | 3E | 62 |
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# | Pound | 23 | 35 |
% | Percent | 25 | 37 |
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Miscellaneous characters |
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{ | Left curly brace | 7B | 123 |
} | Right curly brace | 7D | 125 |
Vertical bar / pipe | 7C | 124 | |
\ | Backslash | 5C | 92 |
^ | Caret | 5E | 94 |
~ | Tilde | 7E | 126 |
[ | Left square bracket | 5B | 91 |
] | Right square bracket | 5D | 93 |
` | Grave accent | 60 | 96 |
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Advanced Serial Port Control
If serial setup configurations are required, the following options provide advanced methods for communicating serially with the interface: serial
Serial pass-through (redirect mode)
Serial
Any serial port on an IPL T S interface can be configured as a