Re: How to URL-ize a string

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From: Chris Smith (cdsmith_at_twu.net)
Date: 04/19/04


Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:56:15 -0600

I wrote:
> Robin Hammond wrote:
> > Thanks for the constructive comment. They work absolutely fine for me using
> > MSXML2.XMLHTTP40.
> >
>
> Perhaps that control does the encoding for you. Or perhaps you've been
> lucky and only interacted with servers that are very lax in violating
> that specific part of the HTTP specification. In the former case (and
> if it's actually documented behavior of the control), then you're fine.
> In the latter case, you should really fix this before your code starts
> randomly breaking on different servers.

Okay, I just checked. The documentation for the XMLHTTP control says
that the second parameter to open is a URL, and mentions nothing about
not needing to do encoding for illegal characters. So Robin, I'd
strongly suggest you fix your code.

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