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Passing URL variables with non-URL-friendly characters

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by
rs
on October 25, 2006
in Technical
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When passing information via URL variables, we have to be careful that those variables do not contain non-URL-friendly characters. This includes spaces and non-alpha-numeric characters…
to be able to pass this characters, you have to first convert it to URL-safe hexadecimal escape characters…

And to do that, just use the URL encode function..

In classic Asp and Asp.Net:
Server.UrlEncode()

In classic PHP:
urlencode()

In classic Coldfusion:
URLEncodedFormat()