/* rfc1738:
...The characters ";",
"/", "?", ":", "@", "=" and "&" are the characters which may be
reserved for special meaning within a scheme...
...Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
unencoded within a URL...
For added safety, we only leave -_. unencoded.
*/
static unsigned char hexchars[] = "0123456789ABCDEF";