How to escape hash character in URL

html http query-string
Muhammad Hewedy picture Muhammad Hewedy · Feb 15, 2011 · Viewed 136.9k times · Source

How to escape the # hash sign (sometimes known as number sign or pound sign) sent in the query string of a URL?

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Robert Tupelo-Schneck picture Robert Tupelo-Schneck · Feb 15, 2011

Percent encoding. Replace the hash with %23.

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