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Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) wrote:
Sure, right after I get done arguing about URL encoding last week I find
myself writing a socket program that needs to do it.  Boy, if that don't
beat all;-)

I am sending a stream of XML through a socket connection and am wondering if
I need to encode all of the '<', '>', '/', etc with %3C, %3E, and %2F
respectively?  And any other characters for that matter. . .

I am assuming I do need to do this so I am wondering if somebody knows of a
tool that somebody has already created to do the URL encoding so I can save
myself some time.
No, URL encoding is only applicable to URL's in an HTML document.
That is, if you have a need to dynamically generate an anchor tag in
your HTML document where the URL includes a query string, the
special characters in the query string need to be properly encoded.
URL encoding does not apply to any other situation.

Cheers!  Hans





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