urlencode

I am url encoding a string of text to pass along to a function. However, it encodes the second space in a double-space as "%A0". This means that when I decode the string, the "%A0" is displayed as a question mark in a black box. I really just need to be able to remove the extra space, but I'd like to understand what is causing this and how to handle it correctly. For example: Something Something else Encodes to: Something+%A0Something+else %A0 indicates a NBSP (U+00A0). + indicates a normal space (U+0020). The NBSP displays as a replacement character (U+FFFD) because the encoding of the

We have an url like http://site.s3.amazonaws.com/images/some image @name.jpg inside $string What I'm trying to do (yes, there is a whitespace around the url): $string = urlencode(trim($string)); $string_data = file_get_contents($string); What I get (@ is also replaced): file_get_contents(http%3A%2F%2Fsite.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2Fsome+image+@name.jpg)[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory If you copy/paste http://site.s3.amazonaws.com/images/some image @name.jpg into browser address bar, image will open. What's bad and how to fix that? The URL you

I am trying to download files using file_get_contents() function. However if the location of the file is http://www.example.com/some name.jpg , the function fails to download this. But if the URL is given as http://www.example.com/some%20name.jpg , the same gets downloaded. I tried rawurlencode() but this coverts all the characters in the URL and the download fails again. Can someone please suggest a solution for this? I think this will work for you: function file_url($url){ $parts = parse_url($url); $path_parts = array_map('rawurldecode', explode('/', $parts['path'])); return $parts['scheme']

What should be done against contents of href attribute: HTML or URL encoding? <a href="???">link text</a> On the one hand, since href attribute contains URL I should use URL encoding. On the other hand, I'm inserting this URL into HTML, so it must be HTML encoded. Please help me to overcome this contradiction. Thanks. EDIT: Here's the contradiction. Suppose there might be the '<' and '>' characters in the URL. URL encoding won't escape them, so there will be reserved HTML characters inside the href attribute, which violates the standard. HTML encoding will escape '<' and '>' characters and

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[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes (postData); // (*) request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length; Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream (); dataStream.Write (byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);

I need the encoded URL for processing in one of the API, but it requires the full encoded URL. For example, the URL from: http://test.site-raj.co/999999?lpp=1&px2=IjN has to become an encoded URL, like: http%3a%2f%test%site%2draj%2eco%2f999999%3flpp%3d1%26px2%3dIjN I need every symbol to be encoded, even the dot(.) and hyphen(-) like above. Try this. Inside a function maybe if you are using it more than once... $str = 'http://test.site.co/999999?lpp=1&p---x2=IjN'; $str = urlencode($str); $str = str_replace('.', '%2E', $str); $str = str_replace('-', '%2D', $str); echo $str; This will encode all

I need to URL encode some periods since I have to pass some document path along and it is like this http://example.com/test.aspx?document=test.docx So test.docx is causing me an error of an illegal character. So I need to change it to . --> %2E I tried to use Server.UrlEncode string b = Server.UrlEncode("http://example.com/test.aspx?document=test.docx"); but I get "http%3a%2f%2fexample.com%2ftest.aspx%3fdocument%3dtest.docx" So do I have to use like a string replace and do it manually and replace all periods with that code? The period there isn't he problem (given that %2E doesn't solve the