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[Dr. Dread]

I am looking for a good way to encode URLs, i.e. escaping web-unsafe characters for communication with a web server, like this:

This is a test + \folder
=
This%20is%20a%20test%20%2B%20%5Cfolder

I have a blurred memory of some DLL doing this, or was it only decoding? Or is it my imagination

Hmmm, maybe the only way is a VDS search and replace?

Greetz
Dr. Dread

[SnarlingSheep]

VDSXFN.DLL http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=18
Has a replace function that you could use.
%%String = @FX(REPSTR,%%String,@CHR(32),"%20",\,"%5C")

[Dr. Dread]

Thanx. I'll look into that one.

Meanwhile it has turned out that there are some caveats when it comes to replacing chars in URLs. Some characters
should be replaced in resource names but not in paths, for instance:
'~', '_' and '@' should be encoded in resource names but not in paths, so

server.somesite.com/~files/code~example.htm
=
server.somesite.com/~files/code%7Eexample.htm

I'm compiling a list of chars and escape codes - if anyone else is interested I could post it.

Greetz
Dread

[FreezingFire]

Hi Dr. Dread,

Did you ever finish that list of codes? I'd like to see it.

[Dr. Dread]

Yup, I've got that list of codes. It comes out kinda bad coz it is tabbed, so I'll mail it to ya.

Greetz
Dread