Thanks.  Yes.  I did that,  it also has a verbose mode so that I could see what 
it was doing.  What I needed was not just escaping but strict escaping.  My 
memory forma number of years back was that I had issues with urlencode from 
base not being strict.  And of course you don't what to encode twice.

Thanks,

-Roy


> On Feb 19, 2020, at 7:08 AM, Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Perhaps you could test it out by using httr::GET() with and without
> escaping using xml2::url_escape()?
> 
> https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/xml2/versions/1.2.2/topics/url_escape
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:29 PM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via
> R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All:
>> 
>> I hav been trying to go through the code for httr::GET() but it is somewhat 
>> beyond what I know.  What I am trying to find out is if all urls are 
>> automatically percent encoded,  or whether the user needs to do that.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Roy
>> 
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Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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110 McAllister Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831)-420-3666
Fax: (831) 420-3980
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