[c-nsp] Using a "?" in a URL

[Ian MacKinnon]

Hi Jeffrey, I was looking at something similar the other day, I have not 
  tried it myself.
You need to escape the "?" with ctrl-v when entering it.

Not sure how this translates to the actual running config :-)


Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> Is there a way to use a "?" in a URL from the IOS command line?  I'd
> like to be able to do something like:
> 
> copy http://10.0.0.1/config-gen.php?hostname=switch-hostname start
> 
> But IOS is interpreting the "?" as a request to provide
> context-sensitive help.  Quoting the URL or trying to escape the "?"
> with backslashes doesn't help. Is there any way to turn this behavior
> off, at least temporarily?  I can work around this using extra path
> information instead of query parameters in the URL but I thought that
> I'd see if there's a way to turn it off.
> 
> Jeff
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