Response.redirect url encodes spaces to %20 in querystrings

Question

Hi all, When i do this:

Response.Redirect("./blah.aspx?key=my value with spaces");

It sends the browser to:

mysite/blah.aspx?key=my%20value%20with%20spaces

Now i understand why it's doing this - for the sake of ancient browsers that would choke on the spaces. But really, what i want is to have a nice-looking url with spaces instead of %'s everywhere, because it works just the same.

Is there some way to stop response.redirect urlencoding my spaces?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

you could always replace spaces in your key with scores before redirecting, and "decoding" them into spaces again after the fact like so:

string urlString = "./blah.aspx?key=my value with spaces";
Response.Redirect(urlString.Replace(' ','-'));

and on the page that grabs the querystring:

string queryKey = Request["key"].Replace('-',' ');

(be careful of nulls in Request["key"] here though)

Answer 2

You can't have a valid URL with spaces, the space character is actually illegal in an URL.

You can't make the Response.Redirect method avoid encoding the spaces, it's not designed to create an illegal URL.