Server.UrlEncode vs. HttpUtility.UrlEncode
Is there a difference between Server.UrlEncode and HttpUtility.UrlEncode? 6 Answers 6
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URLEncoder not able to translate space character
I am expecting System.out.println(java.net.URLEncoder.encode(“Hello World”, “UTF-8”)); to output: Hello%20World (20 is ASCII Hex code for space) However, what I get is: Hello+World Am I using the wrong method? What is the correct method I should be using? 19 Answers 19
What’s the difference between EscapeUriString and EscapeDataString?
If only deal with url encoding, I should use EscapeUriString? 6 Answers 6
URL encode sees “&” (ampersand) as “&” HTML entity
I am encoding a string that will be passed in a URL (via GET). But if I use escape, encodeURI or encodeURIComponent, & will be replaced with %26amp%3B, but I want it to be replaced with %26. What am I doing wrong? 4 Answers 4
How do you UrlEncode without using System.Web?
I am trying to write a windows client application that calls a web site for data. To keep the install to a minimum I am trying only use dlls in the .NET Framework Client Profile. Trouble is that I need to UrlEncode some parameters, is there an easy way to do this without importing System.Web.dll … Read more
URL encoding in Android
How do you encode a URL in Android? I thought it was like this: final String encodedURL = URLEncoder.encode(urlAsString, “UTF-8”); URL url = new URL(encodedURL); If I do the above, the http:// in urlAsString is replaced by http%3A%2F%2F in encodedURL and then I get a java.net.MalformedURLException when I use the URL. 7 Answers 7
Swift – encode URL
If I encode a string like this: var escapedString = originalString.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) it doesn’t escape the slashes /. I’ve searched and found this Objective C code: NSString *encodedString = (NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes( NULL, (CFStringRef)unencodedString, NULL, (CFStringRef)@”!*'();:@&=+$,/?%#[]”, kCFStringEncodingUTF8 ); Is there an easier way to encode an URL and if not, how do I write this in Swift? … Read more
How can I percent-encode URL parameters in Python?
If I do url = “http://example.com?p=” + urllib.quote(query) It doesn’t encode / to %2F (breaks OAuth normalization) It doesn’t handle Unicode (it throws an exception) Is there a better library? 5 Answers 5
HTTP URL Address Encoding in Java
My Java standalone application gets a URL (which points to a file) from the user and I need to hit it and download it. The problem I am facing is that I am not able to encode the HTTP URL address properly… Example: URL: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/first book.pdf java.net.URLEncoder.encode(url.toString(), “ISO-8859-1”); returns me: http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2Fbooksearch%2Ffirst+book.pdf But, what I want … Read more
urlencode vs rawurlencode?
If I want to create a URL using a variable I have two choices to encode the string. urlencode() and rawurlencode(). What exactly are the differences and which is preferred? 11 Answers 11
