Re: Sending special characters

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:56:24PM -0000, Gon?alo Silva Dias wrote:
> Hi ppl,
> 
> How can I send characters in the url like
> http://parede.hn.org/index.php?info=?
> 
> Anyone knows how to do that?


If you need to include reserved characters, such as "?", ";" or "/", in a
URL query part (the bit after the first '?'), you have to encode them.  You
can send any ASCII character in a URL by encoding it as "%hh" where "hh"
is the hex value for the character code. For example, "?" encodes as "%3f",
and "%" encodes as "%25".

Your example, then, would be a proper URL like this:
http://parede.hn.org/index.php?info=%3f

If you are using PHP to construct your URLs, use the function
urlencode() on your strings before including them in the URL. (see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php for more details)

Hope this helps,

Ian Clelland
<ian@veryfresh.com>

Received on Wednesday, 3 December 2003 14:50:23 UTC