Watch out for URL encoding troubles

 
Chris Harris

URL encoding is a tricky business in most languages, so I wanted to be proactive to help people figure out how best to deal with these issues.

There is a decent discussion on the PHP site here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlenc….

Mark Worrell offers a detailed discussion here about other languages and how their URL encoding works:
http://www.marcworrell.com/article-2943-en.html.

In short, be sure to follow RFC3986 to have the best chances of success.

Chris