Special characters in title bar

hussey

Hi can people tell me what special characters you can have in a url

e.g. ?, &, = etc all have special meaning

also is there any type of work around for these?

the problem is I have a input box and when it returns in puts what was inputted in the url

(e.g. if user inputted test) - now my question is if the user typed in test&
how can I convert '&' so it will not be read as a parameter in the url?

any help welcome!
e.g. http://......./&NEW_PAGE=test

cgarvey

I'm not sure I fully understand the question but...

If you're just using a striaght forward form, then your browser should escape it automatically (for you to unescape server side) as %26. If you're using JavaScript, check out the escape() method.

There is an online JavaScript example here although, they roll their own encode/decode.

.cg

bonkey

rfc1738 : the URL standard definition is most likely what you're looking for.

jc

hussey

bonkey wrote:

rfc1738 : the URL standard definition is most likely what you're looking for.

jc

that's the one - yeah