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Characters that shouldn't be in a URL

  • 14-01-2007 11:58AM
    #1
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    I'm writing a simple encryption routine for my site, and have had some minor problems with it. Basically, I encrypt a string and then send it as a parameter to a URL, test.php?x={encrypted string}

    Where it's failing, it's down to certain characters in this encrypted string, so &, =, # have all caused the resulting page to fail. That's fine, I can simply remove these characters from the encryption routine. But I can't test all possible encrypted strings, so is there a list of characters that might cause issue in a URL like these ones? 
    &
=
#
.


Comments

  • #2
    Laslo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 831 ✭✭✭Laslo


    Haha. I was just thinking about writing a function to do something similar a few minutes ago. If anyone has an array of characters already prepared, do share the wealth. :D


  • #3
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Use PHP's urlencode/urldecode function, or an equivalent.


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