Request a resource with percent sign in path

Question

I need to request a file www.myserver.de/file%.pdf . The file exists and requesting the renamed copy www.myserver.de/file.pdf works.

Is this expected behaviour?

Answer 1

% has a special meaning in URLs, so you need to escape it in order to refer to files with %s in their names.

Try www.myserver.de/file%25.pdf instead.

Answer 2

% is the character for URL escape sequences. Try using %25 which decodes to a single % sign.