url-encoding

urlencoded Forward slash is breaking URL

About the system I have URLs of this format in my project:- http://project_name/browse_by_exam/type/tutor_search/keyword/class/new_search/1/search_exam/0/search_subject/0 Where keyword/class pair means search with "class" keyword. I have a common index.php file which executes for every module in the project. There is only a rewrite ...

Twitter Oauth URL encoding inconsistencies?

I'm reading the walkthrough at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth but there seem to be an inconsistency in encoding the callback URL. The callback is listed as: oauth_callback - http://localhost:3005/the_dance/process_callback?service_provider_id=11 The signature base string is listed as: POST&...oauth_callback%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flocal...

Hex Url decoder c#

i have a URL like http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewikimoveis%2Ecom%2Ebr%2Ffotos%2F1292%2FKO2551%2FDSC01366%2EJPG I need to get it decode correctly. I believe that is Hexadecimal. Can't find any C# code that would do that. thank you ...

Escape + (plus) in URI

When user enters an e-mail on my web site, I send an e-mail verification e-mail that contains a link. Link looks something like: http://mysite.com/[email protected]&token=12341234 This particular user's e-mail contains '+' (plus), so link looks like: http://mysite.com/[email protected]&token=...

ASP.NET MVC - Search Criteria as Route Parameter in stead of querystring - Illegal Characters

I asked a previous question on how to optimize my search for SEO and users without JavaScript, and I figured out my answer by using RedirectToAction However, in doing so, I've found a new issue that I need to resolve. If I submit a search "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs" (trying to mimic Google with the "quotes" fo...

url encoding/decoding with python

I am trying to encode and store, and decode arguments in python and getting lost somewhere along the way. Here are my steps: 1) I use google toolkit's gtm_stringByEscapingForURLArgument to convert an NSString properly for passing into http arguments. 2) On my server (python), I store these string arguments as something like u'1234567...

I have a querystring value which don't convert to right encoding?

I pass actually Göte in the querystring parameter, which converts to G%F6te in the url field. And in the page, actually a generic handler it displays: G�te How to fix it, so it displays Göte? --------- EDIT ---------------- It actually works fine when I make a ajax-call to the page, but when I directly alter the querystring parame...

Plus signs being replaced for %252520

When I click on my index'd pages in Google the plus signs in my query string are being replaced (encoded?) for %252520. Anyone know why? Example: lovelakedistrict.com/result/?q=Private%252520car%252520park&page=2 should be lovelakedistrict.com/result/?q=Private+car+park&page=2 I have heard that this is a result of redirecting my ...

Question mark in url (Apache)

Hello, I have a problem with a question mark in url. For example I have url "test.com/controller/action/part_1%3Fpart_2" (where %3F is url encoded question mark). With this rewrite rule "RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]" it should be passed to framework I use (Kohana) as is. At least I thought so. The problem is that everything after th...

how do I properly encode a URL in JavaScript?

I am working on a browser plugin that takes the URL of the current page or any selected link as a parameter and send it to our server. When characters of the basic latin alphabet are present in the url (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle), the plugin works fine. However, when the URL contains characters from another alphabet such ...

mod_rewrite rule to enforce canonical percent-encoding

We have a PHP app with a dynamic URL scheme which requires characters to be percent-encoded, even "unreserved characters" like parentheses or aphostrophes which aren't actually required to be encoded. URLs which the app deems to be encoded the "wrong" way are canonicalized and then redirected to the "right" encoding. But Google and othe...

java.net.URI chokes on special characters in host part

Hi, I have a URI string like the following: http://www.christlichepartei%F6sterreichs.at/steiermark/ I'm creating a java.lang.URI instance with this string and it succeeds but when I want to retrieve the host it returns null. Opera and Firefox also choke on this URL if I enter it exactly as shown above. But shouldn't the URI class...

Complete C# noob, VS2010, cannot use HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode?

So, i'm a complete noob to C#. I have a url that i need to encode in order to use urlencoded posts. Issue is, every resource i've found says to use System.Web.HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode. Alternatively, I have seen resources telling me to use System.Web.Util.HttpEncoder(). I have added a reference to system.web, but am getting the "doe...

NameValueCollection to URL Query?

I know i can do this var nv = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(req.RawUrl); But is there a way to convert this back to a url? var newUrl = HttpUtility.Something("/page", nv); ...

Querystring with url-encoded ampersand prematurely decoded within Request.Url

Given url /Page.aspx?a=b&title=apples+%26+pears, Request.Url property returns /Page.aspx?a=b&title=apples+&+pears Note that the url-encoded ampersand in the second key-value pair has been automatically decoded. Other url-encoded reserved characters aren't being automatically decoded. Is this behaviour correct? EDIT: The issue is that ...

What are the implications of not doing url encoding when passing URLs in GET requests?

I just tried the following URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http://www.yahoo.com/path/to/location on my browser, and it worked! What made it work? And why should one encode URLs other than substituting spaces with + or %20, etc.? That is, do I still need to encode my URLs even if I don't have any characters that's not allowe...