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Dec 2, 2008 · Stick with encodeURIComponent(). The function encodeURI() does not bother to encode many characters that have semantic importance in URLs (e.g. "#", "?", and "&"). escape() is …

Nov 28, 2009 · 3 HTMLEncode and URLEncode deal with invalid characters in HTML and URLs, or more accurately, characters that need to be specially written to be interpreted correctly. For example, …

Oct 29, 2013 · The general rule seems to be that browsers encode form responses according to the content-type of the page the form was served from. This is a guess that if the server sends us …

Jun 15, 2009 · If I want to create a URL using a variable I have two choices to encode the string. urlencode() and rawurlencode(). What exactly are the differences and which is preferred?

Jan 20, 2011 · 25 The cunningly-named urlencode () and urldecode (). However, you shouldn't need to use urldecode() on variables that appear in $_POST and $_GET.

Oct 27, 2009 · When is a space in a URL encoded to +, and when is it encoded to %20?

Oct 22, 2015 · Context Python (version 2.7.2 ) Problem You want to generate a urlencoded query string. You have a dictionary or object containing the name-value pairs. You want to be able to control the …

Nov 18, 2008 · The solution I propose is to use node and curl inside a bash script. Yes you need a dependency but it is still bash. I am not proposing to do the whole work with node. Therefore this is a …

Since UrlEncode does this up front, it is rather easy. As for Linux versus windows, there are some characters that are acceptable in Linux that are not in Windows, but I would not worry about that, as …