Commit ed339b69 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'sh-document-plus-encoding-api' into 'master'

Document converting `+` to `%2B` in an API query parameter

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!14948
parents 16998e2e efbb9cfb
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## 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 ## Clients
There are many unofficial GitLab API Clients for most of the popular There are many unofficial GitLab API Clients for most of the popular
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