How to encode periods for URLs in Javascript?

Question

The SO post below is comprehensive, but all three methods described fail to encode for periods.

Post: Encode URL in JavaScript?

For instance, if I run the th

Answer 1

I had this same problem where my .htaccess was breaking input values with . Since I did not want to change what the .htaccess was doing I used this to fix it:

var val="foo.bar";
var safevalue=encodeURIComponent(val).replace(/\./g, '%2E');

this does all the standard encoding then replaces . with there ascii equivalent %2E. PHP automatically converts back to . in the $_REQUEST value but the .htaccess doesn't see it as a period so things are all good.