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I want to make a string into a URL using C#. There must be something in the .NET framework that should help, right? LiraNuna I believe you're looking for HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode . System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(string url) Another way of doing this is using Uri.EscapeUriString(stringToEscape) . Gilda I found useful System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(string str); It replaces spaces with %20 and not with +. To properly escape spaces as well as the rest of the special characters, use System.Uri.EscapeDataString(string stringToEscape) . As commented on the approved story, the

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 which is not part of the Client Pofile? ToddBFisher System.Uri.EscapeUriString() can be problematic with certain characters, for me it was a number / pound '#' sign in the string. If that is an issue for you, try: System.Uri.EscapeDataString() //Works excellent with individual values Here is a SO

My website is XHTML Transitional compliant except for one thing : the & (ampersand) in the URL are written as it is, instead of & That is, all the urls in my pages are usually like this: <a href="http://www.foo.com/page.aspx?x=1&y=2">Foo</a> But XHTML validator generates this error: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "y" ... and it wants the url to be written like this: <a href="http://www.foo.com/page.aspx?x=1&y=2">Foo</a> The problem is that IE and Firefox don't handle the URL correctly and ignore the y parameter. How can I make this link work and validate correctly? It

I want to send a URI as the value of a query/matrix parameter. Before I can append it to an existing URI, I need to encode it according to RFC 2396. For example, given the input: http://google.com/resource?key=value1 & value2 I expect the output: http%3a%2f%2fgoogle.com%2fresource%3fkey%3dvalue1%2520%26%2520value2 Neither java.net.URLEncoder nor java.net.URI will generate the right output. URLEncoder is meant for HTML form encoding which is not the same as RFC 2396. URI has no mechanism for encoding a single value at a time so it has no way of knowing that value1 and value2 are part of the

I'm POSTing data to an external API (using PHP, if it's relevant). Should I URL-encode the POST variables that I pass? Or do I only need to URL-encode GET data? Thanks! UPDATE: This is my PHP, in case it is relevant: $fields = array( 'mediaupload'=>$file_field, 'username'=>urlencode($_POST["username"]), 'password'=>urlencode($_POST["password"]), 'latitude'=>urlencode($_POST["latitude"]), 'longitude'=>urlencode($_POST["longitude"]), 'datetime'=>urlencode($_POST["datetime"]), 'category'=>urlencode($_POST["category"]), 'metacategory'=>urlencode($_POST["metacategory"]), 'caption'=>($_POST[

This question already has an answer here: URL encoding the space character: + or %20? 4 answers In a URL, should I encode the spaces using %20 or + ? For example, in the following example, which one is correct? www.mydomain.com?type=xbox%20360 www.mydomain.com?type=xbox+360 Our company is leaning to the former, but using the Java method URLEncoder.encode(String, String) with "xbox 360" (and "UTF-8" ) returns the latter . So, what's the difference? Form data (for GET or POST) is usually encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded : this specifies + for spaces. URLs are encoded as RFC 1738