Re: [Dynapi-Help] Escape and Unescape.. (or server.urlencode)

[Doug M. <do...@cr...>]

Yay. thanks.
(as if I didn't think of replacing the +' THEN decoding..)
<hits self in forehead with a resounding "DOH!">

Thank you,
Doug Melvin
Integrated System Solutions: Design, Development, Implementation and Support
Creative-Workshop.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dougal Campbell" <do...@gu...>
To: "dynapi-help" <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] Escape and Unescape.. (or server.urlencode)


> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Doug Melvin wrote:
>
> > Could someone please direct me to a chart or list of some sort
> > showing exactly what characters are replaced with what codes when
> > you Escape a string (encode it so it can go into a URL and is cross
> > platform..) .
> >
> > You see.. my application combines JS and ASP.. unfortunatly the two
> > don't escape/unescape strings quite the same way.. I've gottewn it
> > to the point where , when the strings get's to javascript and is
> > unescaped all is well except that all the spaces are +'s .. I CAN do
> > a .replace() except, well, what if one or more of those +'s are
> > actually ment to BE +'s?
>
> How about replace()ing the +'s first, *then* do the urldecode? (Real +'s
> should have been encoded as %2B,  I think).
>
> URL encoding just escapes certain characers by converting them to the
> hexadecimal equivalent of their ASCII value, preceded by a percent
> sign. From RFC 1738, it looks like encoded characters are:
>
>   Control characters: octets 00-1F, >=7F
>   Special characters: <>"#%;/?:@=&
>
>   Optionally, these might also be encoded: {}|\^~[]`
>
> It doesn't specically say that '+' should be encoded, but since the
> urlencoding scheme uses it in place of spaces, you should assume that it
> will be encoded as %2B
>
> --
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