Passing url as parameter to web service method

Question

Hi I'm writing a web service which expects one of the parameters (called "hlink") to be a url. Before calling the web service I URLEncode the parameter in question ("hlink"). I then call the web service with an hlink parameter value of 'a.apsx?a=1&b=2. When the request arrives at the web service method I can examine hlink - it has received the url ok, but only as "a.aspx?a=1" - i.e. it has lost the &b=2 part of the parameter. This seems to be asp.net stripping off the &b=2 bit - how can I get the whole parm value passed into my web method?

Thanks very much!

Answer 1

Are you absolutely certain that you are urlencoding the value before placing it in the query string? The query string parser splits on the '&' sign, which should be %26 after it is url encoded. If it remains as an '&' character, it will cause the query string parser to b=2 is another name value pair in the outer query string. I'd take a closer look at what you are sending.

You should see something like this: hlink=a.apsx%3Fa%3D1%26b%3D2