What does a ^ sign mean in a URL?
html, http, url
Solution
Caret (^) is not a reserved character in URLs, so it should be acceptable to use as-is. However, if you re having problems, just replace it with its hex encoding `%5E`.
And yeah, putting raw SQL in the URL is like a big flashing neon sign reading "EXPLOIT ME PLEASE!".
Problem
What is the meaning of a ^ sign in a URL? I needed to crawl some link data from a webpage and I was using a simple handwritten PHP crawler for it. The crawler usually works fine; then I came to a URL like this: `http://www.example.com/example.asp?x7=3^^^^^select%20col1,col2%20from%20table%20where%20recordid%3E=20^^^^^` This URL works fine when typed in a browser but my crawler is not able to retrieve this page. I am getting an "HTTP request failed error".