Microsoft.XMLHTTP Strips Spaces from Parameters?

[baden]

Given the following code:

        Dim objXmlHttp2
        Set objXmlHttp2 = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

         smsSend = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://"[/URL] & Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME") & "/myfile.asp?"          

         params2Send = "p1=Some text with spaces to send" & Session("userID") & _
                       "&p2=More text with spaces and it's own quotes" &

         objXmlHttp2.open "POST", smsSend, False
         objXmlHttp2.SetRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-[URL unfurl="true"]www-form-urlencoded"[/URL]  ' sending via Form
             
         ' Send it on it's merry way.
         objXmlHttp2.send params2Send
 
 . . .

In myFile.asp, doing a Request.Form("p1") shows that all spaces have been stripped from the text. (is this normal?)
So I created used Replace() to insert special char's to signify spaces. But if the text contains single/double quotations, it truncates at that point.
ie, using

   2nd last OK... "Need" in "About/Education"

I replaced spaces with |_| but the resulting text on the receiving page is

   2nd|_|last|_|OK...|_|

That's it.... truncated at the quotation mark.

Does the prob. have something to do with "Content-type", "application/x-

http://www-form-urlencoded"

?

Any help on this?

 

[baden]

Used Server.URLEncode("the text . .. ") to fix the problem.