title: Making a get request with a url that has special characters
body: <p>I am trying to make this request</p>
  
  <pre><code>fopen("http://192.168.0.116:9090/sendsms?phone=4456666&amp;text=url#&amp;password=","r");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to send an sms from my android device but i can't seem to send the message successfully and i suspect that <code>#</code> is complicating things.</p>
  
  <p>The <code>#</code> in url must remain there as part of the message itself.</p>
  
  <p><code>phone</code> is the telephone number and <code>text</code> is the text message.</p>
  
  <p>How can i make the get request work?.</p>