[WEB400] Re: URL encoding

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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