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Can backslash be encoded correctly in URL with URL rewrite?

I am working on a ASP.NET MVC2 project. The problem is when a string which would be rewritten into URL that contains special character such as backslash or question mark. That will make the URL wrong, even I have encoded it before. For example: I have a product id "p001\2-2". I encoded it into "p001%5C2-2" The URL http://domain.com/P...

using nested arrays by php http_build_query() and recieve them in flash AS3

hi, i am having this hard time figuring what is needed to do, i am using URLVariables to send/recieve values between flash and PHP the problem is, i am unable to access nested arrays ( array inside an array ) with flash heres an example: $dgresult = array("total" => $results); echo http_build_query($dgresult,"flf_"); in flash, all ...

PHP String Encoding Error

I'm trying to get the following code to output an IMG tag with the URL for Google Static Maps API http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#Imagesizes embedded in there... the result is that everything except the $address is being output successfully... what am I doing wrong? function event_map_img($echo = true){ gl...

URL Encoding in JS for meaningful URLs and Rails Page Caching

Hi, I'm running a Rails Application which gets a lot of traffic at the moment so I started using Page Caching to increase the performance. So far everything works like a charm. But when I tried to also cache search results I run into a strange problem. My Approach: Use meaningful URLs for searching and pagination (/search?query=term&...

GWT: library for encoding/decoding arbitrary data in URL fragments

Ajax applications, and GWT in particular, use the URL fragment (e.g. http://example.com/myapp#fragment) to maintain application state on the client without reloading the page. Is there a GWT library that facilitates the encoding and decoding of arbitrary parameters into the URL fragment? I'm looking for something analogous to the Servl...

Url encode and routing?

I'm using custom routing in a web forms context. I have some titles (part of my custom route) that have say a question mark character. When I URL encode this text ("Question?") and then pass into my route, I get an HTTP ERROR CODE 400. Apparently, the URL encoded text is somehow confusing the routing manager. Can someone provide context...

How can I stop the browser from url-encoding form values on GET

I have a form with method="get". In the form I need to pass the URL of a CSS file but it is encoding it to http%3A%2F%2Fwww... etc. Is there a way to stop the encoding of the URL as it is breaking the file. Thanks ...

C# web request with POST encoding question

On the MSDN site there is an example of some C# code that shows how to make a web request with POST'ed data. Here is an excerpt of that code: WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create ("http://www.contoso.com/PostAccepter.aspx "); request.Method = "POST"; string postData = "This is a test that posts this string to a Web server."; byte[] by...

URL Encode all non alpha numeric in C#

I need to fully URL Encode an email address. HttpUtility.UrlEncode seems to ignore certain characters such as ! and . I need to pass an email address in a url formated like this: /Users/[email protected]/Comments Because my WebMethod uri template looks like this: [WebGet(UriTemplate = "Users/{emailAddress}/Comments")] The period bre...

How to escape URL-encoded data in POST with HttpWebRequest

I am trying to send an URL-encoded post to a REST API implemented in PHP. The POST data contains two user-provided strings: WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(new Uri(serverUri, "rest")); request.Method = "POST"; request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"; request.Headers.Add("Content-Transfer-Encod...

Pre-Populate a Twitter Status with A Hashtag

You can pre-populate a tweet by doing something like: twitter.com/home?status=I am asking a question on stackoverflow If you want to use a hashtag you have to urlencode it http://twitter.com/home?status=I am asking a question on %23stackoverflow If the user is not already logged into twitter, once they do log in, they are redirected to...

Java problem using commons-httpclient-3.X.jar

Hi, I need to pass from commons-httpclient-3.0.jar to commons-httpclient-3.1.jar but changing the jar my code doesn't work any more. The problem is that the new library encode automatically the passed uri. Is there a way to avoid this? I must interact with Yahoo API and I mustn't encode the URI otherwise I can't access to the se...

Manipulation of URLEncoded String

Hi, I have to pass a string (input) in GET parameter of a URL, but there is a limit on maximum length of URL being 357. The string is to be encoded using "Shift-JIS". For a keyword "blah 123 blahblah 321", i need to strip off last word(s) such that the string would be meaningful and the resulting URL length should be within the limit of...

encoding string for URL problem!

I have to POST data to a php page from an Iphone application, so i need to encode the parameters properly, converting the special characters... Specifically i need to send the UDID of the iphone. I've found many helps on the web to encode the String to pass as parameter, but i got a strange error. I'm using this function: - (NSString...

Simple ascii url encoding with python

look at that: import urllib print urllib.urlencode(dict(bla='Ã')) the output is bla=%C3%BC what I want is simple, I want the output in ascii instead of utf-8, so I need the output: bla=%C3 if I try: urllib.urlencode(dict(bla='Ã'.decode('iso-8859-1'))) doesn't work (all my python files are utf-8 encoded): 'ascii' codec can't ...

Error with urlencode in python

I have this: a = {'album': u'Metamorphine', 'group': 'monoku', 'name': u'Son Of Venus (Danny\xb4s Song)', 'artist': u'Leandra', 'checksum': '2836e33d42baf947e8c8adef48921f2f76fcb37eea9c50b0b59d7651', 'track_number': 8, 'year': '2008', 'genre': 'Darkwave', 'path': u'/media/data/musik/Leandra/2008. Metamorphine/08. Son Of Venus (Danny\xb4...

Does HttpUtility.UrlEncode match the spec for 'x-www-form-urlencoded'?

Per MSDN URLEncode converts characters as follows: Spaces ( ) are converted to plus signs (+). Non-alphanumeric characters are escaped to their hexadecimal representation. Which is similar, but not exactly the same as W3C application/x-www-form-urlencoded This is the default content type. Forms submitted with ...

URL encode in Qt4

I'm trying to encode a URL while using Qt 4. It looks like in Qt 3, the method was QUrl::encode, but apparently QUrl was rewritten from Qt 3 to Qt 4. I looked in the documentation and didn't see any equivalent method. Is there something I'm missing? ...

How to decode a url encoding string on Windows Mobile?

I have received an url encoding string from the server, e.g http%3a%2f%2fstatic.csbew.com%2f%2fcreative%2fpd_test_pptv%2f320x60.png I want to decode it to normal url string. I find this method, but this doesn't work on compact framework. string url = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(strURL, Encoding.GetEncoding("GB2312")); Any idea a...

(PHP) rawurlencode/decode seems to encode '£' sign as '£' (%C2%A3 instead of %A3)

So, I've run into a problem with PHP's rawurlencode function. All text fields in our web app are of course converted before being processed by the web-server, and we've used rawurlencode for this. This works fine with almost every character I've found, expect for the "£" sign. Now, there is no reason for our users to ever enter a pound s...