Passing special characters in QueryString 1

[spook007]

I'm trying to pass several values through a querystring. Unfortunately the values contain special characters that cause the querystring to mess up.

add.asp?article_name=Arts&Humanities?article_id=342

The above querystring messes up because of the '&' between Arts&Humanities, it thinks that Humanities is the next value being passed. How can I rewrite my querystring so it doesn't mess up when users enter '&' in the form?

 

[greedyzebra]

The special character should be identifed as %intvalue% where "intvalue" is the ascii value of the character in hex. This is why some url's are like this:

http://www.yahoo.com/some %page.htm

It would actually read like this:

http://www.yahoo.com/some

page.htm

0x20 is 32, the ascii value for a space.

If you're dynamically coming up with the string to pass in the url, you should use the JavaScript escape() method that will return you a string with all special characters converted to a query-string-readable value.

Hope that helps.