I use HttpUtility.UrlEncode to encode any value that is used in a route.
I already solved an issue with encoding forward slashes. The new problem I have now is with spaces. A space is encoded as + .
This works on the VS integrated Webserver, but I have an issue with it in IIS7 on Windows Server 2008.
If I have the URL http://localhost/Home/About/asdas+sdasd
I get the error 404.11 - Request contains double escape sequence.
I know I can just replace the space by "%20", but I dont want to care about propper encoding myself. Is there any ready to use UrlEncoder for MVC out there?
' ' encoded to %20 use HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode.
Any URL Encoding is most often designed to work on the path component of the url, the reason because different schemes have different characters in the safe list. Look for your libraries urlencoder and just use it in the path and above portion of the url.
#HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(path)
UrlPathEncode just encodes the path of the Url, rather than encoding the whole Url.
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I have the following code to post data to a site: https://play.golang.org/p/e1g0Nd1kDh0
When I view the request in Fiddler, it shows as:
"jobTitle=Area Manager"
What I want it to do is send the string exactly as it is in the code (i.e. not encode the %20 to spaces), as it seems to be causing some confusion on the other side? An identical request made using a Python program works fine where the spaces are not added.
I've tried escaping it by doubling the % signs, but it doesn't seem to work. Any help would be great.
Thanks.
If you're trying to receive a literal %20 on the server side, then encode the % sign. It encodes to %25. So your postdata becomes:
data := "&jobTitle=Area%25%20Manager"
But if this is happening, there is probably a problem on the server side where the postdata is being decoded twice.
You can also pass the URL encode characters individually. In this case %25%32%30 = "%20"
I'm working on QlikView and there is requirement that a URL would be generated using the filters that I have selected in QV and then it would be parse to another application. The url contains the values that I have selected in QV. We are facing an issue due to the and apostrophe (') in the user name.
Below is url generated. You could see, the generated url is not completely treated as a URL due to the apostrophe.
http://abcworld.com/berlin/cgi-bin/berlinisapi.dll?b_action=berlinViewer&ui.action=run.prompt=false&p_Type=E&p_Tra=Paul O'Donnell&p_AdjType=O&p_UD=2014-08-11
How to overcome this issue? Is there any special character that I could replace it with?
Thanks in advance.
You would want to encode the apostrophe as %27. This is called URL Encoding and is useful when you need to insert characters in a URI that can't normally be represented in a URI, or otherwise have special meaning, like a question mark. Spaces are often encoded as %20. So your final URL might be:
http://abcworld.com/berlin/cgi-bin/berlinisapi.dll?b_action=berlinViewer&ui.action=run.prompt=false&p_Type=E&p_Tra=Paul%20O%27Donnell&p_AdjType=O&p_UD=2014-08-11
I have a url to pass on my website that have whitespace. what thing i should done that chrome and IE never encode them. suppose
Mywebsite.com/search/ASP.NET MVC 2
IE and chrome fill whitespace with %20 how i can stop them to do this type of things.
You can replace the whitespace with "_" - this is a pretty normal case. But you will probably not be able to keep your spaces.
Whitespaces are not allowed in URLs. That is why they can automatically encoded by some browser if you call that page directly.
What's the problem with that encoding on the receiver side? Just decode the data or (if you are sure there were only whitespaces) just replace all %20 with a whitespace.
I have set up my coldfusion application to have dynamic urls on the page, such as
www.musicExplained/index.cfm/artist/:VariableName
However my variable names will sometimes contain slashes, such as
www.musicExplained/index.cfm/artist/GZA/Genius
This is causing a problem, because my application presumes that the slash in the variable name represents a different section of the website, the artists albums. So the URL will fail.
I am wondering if there is anyway to prevent this from happening? Do I need to use a function that replaces slashes in the variable names with another character?
You need to escape the slashes as %2F.
You could easily replace the forward slashes / with something like an underscore _ such as Wikipedia uses for spaces. Replacing special characters with underscores, etc., is common practice.
You need to escape those but don't just replace it by %2F manually. You can use URLEncoder for this.
Eg URLEncoder.encode(url, "UTF-8")
Then you can say
yourUrl = "www.musicExplained/index.cfm/artist/" + URLEncoder.encode(VariableName, "UTF-8")
Check out this w3schools page about "HTML URL Encoding Reference":
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
for / you would escape with %2F
So, if there are url encoded segments in my apps MVC url, IIS throws a BAD REQUEST 400.
e.g.
http://u.lasoo.com.au/Offer/*9289--750W-Generic-ATX12V-Power-Supply-%252449dot99/6355
<--- the '*' and '%' are causing this error.
Notice that http://u.lasoo.com.au/Offer/The-Giant-Good-As-Gone-7-Day-Sale/6354 works fine.
What's the correct way to convert an arbitrary string into an accepted MVC URL segment?
UPDATE: the URl segment should resemble the original string. Base64 encoding completely transformed the string.
Instead of passing the info in the url you can pass it as a get parameter. Like this:
http://u.lasoo.com.au/Offer/?id=*9289--750W-Generic-ATX12V-Power-Supply-%252449dot99/6355
Have you tried UrlEncode? MSDN
Try a string replace to strip out or substitute symbols ":", "%", "*", "/" - any symbols illegal within a folder name. They seem to screw up everything royally and appear to be a design weakness of the URL routing system.