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?

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Answer 1

I had problems with .s in rest api urls. It is the fact that they are interpreted as extensions which in it's own way makes sense. Escaping doesn't help because they are unescaped before the call (as already noted). Adding a trailing / didn't help either. I got around this by passing the value as a named argument instead. e.g. api/Id/Text.string to api/Id?arg=Text.string. You'll need to modify the routing on the controller but the handler itself can stay the same.

Answer 2

If its possible using a .htaccess file would make it really cool and easy. Just add a \ before the period. Something like:\.