Equivalent Javascript Functions for Python's urllib.quote() and urllib.unquote()

Question

Hello,

Are there any equivalent Javascript functions for Python's urllib.quote() and urllib.unquote()?

The closest I've come across are escape(), encodeURI(), and encodeURIComponent() (and their corresponding un-encoding functions), but they don't encode/decode the same set of special characters as far as I can tell.

Thanks,
Cameron

Answer 1

OK, I think I'm going to go with a hybrid custom set of functions:

Encode: Use encodeURIComponent(), then put slashes back in
Decode: Decode any %hex values found

Answer 2

Try a regex. Something like this:

mystring.replace(/[\xFF-\xFFFF]/g, "%" + "$&".charCodeAt(0));

That will replace any character above ordinal 255 with its corresponding %HEX representation.

Answer 3

Python: urllib.quote

Javascript:unescape

I haven't done extensive testing but for my purposes it works most of the time. I guess you have some specific characters that don't work. Maybe if I use some Asian text or something it will break :)

This came up when I googled so I put this in for all the others, if not specifically for the original question.