Why?
Server.UrlEncode("2*")
return 2*
while it should return 2%2A
as tested on this demo site
A:
According to .NET, * is a 'safe' character and needs not to be encoded.
Whether this is actually correct or not, I do not know.
leppie
2010-08-11 08:26:03
if it is safe then when i browse it...works Finehttp://localhost:2008/PinchofblissWeb/search/name=2but it doesn't browsehttp://localhost:2008/PinchofblissWeb/search/name=2*
SOF User
2010-08-11 08:45:51
+2
A:
RFC 1738 specifically allows * in the URL:
Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL.
So, there is no need to encode it.
The page you link to is a classic asp page so uses UrlEncode, so quite an old implementation and not the .NET one.
Oded
2010-08-11 08:27:33
if it is safe then when i browse it... works Fine localhost:2008/PinchofblissWeb/search/name=2 but it doesn't browse localhost:2008/PinchofblissWeb/search/name=2*
SOF User
2010-08-11 13:26:15
@SOF User - I have tried passing in `2*` as a regular parameter (`?name=2*`) without a problem. You are probably hitting something in a redirect engine.
Oded
2010-08-11 13:50:29