url-encoding – Page 2

URL encoding/decoding with Python

May 12, 2023 by Tarik

url encoding a “raw” unicode doesn’t really make sense. What you need to do is .encode(“utf8″) first so you have a known byte encoding and then .quote() that. The output isn’t very pretty but it should be a correct uri encoding. >>> s = u’1234567890-/:;()$&@”.,?!\'[]{}#%^*+=_\|~<>\u20ac\xa3\xa5\u2022.,?!\” >>> urllib2.quote(s.encode(“utf8”)) ‘1234567890-/%3A%3B%28%29%24%26%40%22.%2C%3F%21%27%5B%5D%7B%7D%23%25%5E%2A%2B%3D_%5C%7C%7E%3C%3E%E2%82%AC%C2%A3%C2%A5%E2%80%A2.%2C%3F%21%27’ Remember that you will need to both … Read more

How to find out if string has already been URL encoded?

March 10, 2023 by Tarik

Decode, compare to original. If it does differ, original is encoded. If it doesn’t differ, original isn’t encoded. But still it says nothing about whether the newly decoded version isn’t still encoded. A good task for recursion. I hope one can’t write a quine in urlencode, or this algorithm would get stuck. Exception: When a … Read more

urlencoded Forward slash is breaking URL

February 15, 2023 by Tarik

Apache denies all URLs with %2F in the path part, for security reasons: scripts can’t normally (ie. without rewriting) tell the difference between %2F and / due to the PATH_INFO environment variable being automatically URL-decoded (which is stupid, but a long-standing part of the CGI specification so there’s nothing can be done about it). You … Read more

How to encode URL in Groovy?

February 8, 2023 by Tarik

You could use java.net.URLEncoder. In your example above, the brackets must be encoded too: def toEncode = “dehydrogenase (NADP+)” assert java.net.URLEncoder.encode(toEncode, “UTF-8”) == “dehydrogenase+%28NADP%2B%29” You could also add a method to string’s metaclass: String.metaClass.encodeURL = { java.net.URLEncoder.encode(delegate, “UTF-8”) } And simple call encodeURL() on any string: def toEncode = “dehydrogenase (NADP+)” assert toEncode.encodeURL() == “dehydrogenase+%28NADP%2B%29”

Copying a UTF-8 URL from browser’s address bar, gives only the ugly encoded one [closed]

January 28, 2023 by Tarik

You can add a ‘space’ at the end of the URL in the address bar, then you can select it all and copy it directly.

NameValueCollection to URL Query?

January 24, 2023 by Tarik

Simply calling ToString() on the NameValueCollection will return the name value pairs in a name1=value1&name2=value2 querystring ready format. Note that NameValueCollection types don’t actually support this and it’s misleading to suggest this, but the behavior works here due to the internal type that’s actually returned, as explained below. Thanks to @mjwills for pointing out that … Read more

In a URL, should spaces be encoded using %20 or +? [duplicate]

December 2, 2022 by Tarik

Form data (for GET or POST) is usually encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded: this specifies + for spaces. URLs are encoded as RFC 1738 which specifies %20. In theory I think you should have %20 before the ? and + after: example.com/foo%20bar?foo+bar

A html space is showing as %2520 instead of %20

November 30, 2022 by Tarik

A bit of explaining as to what that %2520 is : The common space character is encoded as %20 as you noted yourself. The % character is encoded as %25. The way you get %2520 is when your url already has a %20 in it, and gets urlencoded again, which transforms the %20 to %2520. … Read more

URL: Username with @

November 21, 2022 by Tarik

You need to URL encode the @ as %40.