Because some characters have special meanings. For instance, in a query string, the ampersand (&) is used as a separator between key-value pairs. If you were to put an ampersand into one of those values, it would look like the separator between the end of a value and the beginning of the next key. So … Read more
Here’s a good link to explain them. They are cookies used by Google Analytics to track information on your website: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage#gajs
Check out the W3C’s list of HTML attributes, there’s a “type” column in there and just look for URI types. And of course the HTML 5 version of that list is useful too (edit: updated link for HTML 5.2 here) So for HTML4 we’ve got: <a href=url> <applet codebase=url> <area href=url> <base href=url> <blockquote cite=url> … Read more
Both Base64 and Base64url are ways to encode binary data in string form. You can read about the theory of base64 here. The problem with Base64 is that it contains the characters +, /, and =, which have a reserved meaning in some filesystem names and URLs. So base64url solves this by replacing + with … Read more
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In your $routeProvider configuration set reloadOnSearch to false: $routeProvider .when(‘/items’, { controller: ‘ItemsCtrl’, templateUrl: ‘/templates/items’, reloadOnSearch: false }, … ); and in your controller use $location.search() to set the id param: $location.search(‘id’, 123);
If your mobile site is (generally) used by iOS devices, you can use : <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11598925/skype:YourSkypeName?call”>Call me on Skype</a> Apple iOS devices automatically recognizes intents in link with Skype and FaceTime.
URIs contain utf8=✓ to force the client to send UTF-8. It works because the key-value-pair (which is ignored by the target) contains a unicode-only character. From Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?: By default, older versions of IE (<=8) will submit form data in Latin-1 encoding if possible. By including a character that … Read more
You can use the query parameter ll for your lat and long, and you can use the query parameter q for what you want to search. http://maps.google.com/?ll=39.774769,-74.86084 Or you can http://maps.google.com/?q=your+query
You can do all the URL encoding you want with the net/url module. It doesn’t break out the individual encoding functions for the parts of the URL, you have to let it construct the whole URL. Having had a squint at the source code I think it does a very good and standards compliant job. … Read more