How do you URL encode parameters in Erlang?

Question

I\'m using httpc:request to post some data to a remote service. I have the post working but the data in the body() of the post comes through as is, without any URL-encoding

Answer 1

To answer my own question...I found this lib in ibrowse!

http://www.erlware.org/lib/5.6.3/ibrowse-1.4/ibrowse_lib.html#url_encode-1

url_encode/1

url_encode(Str) -> UrlEncodedStr

Str = string()
UrlEncodedStr = string()

URL-encodes a string based on RFC 1738. Returns a flat list.

I guess I can use this to do the encoding and still use http: