Problems with &'s and server.urlencode

[Jeremy21b]

I have a page that opens up in a new window with a javascript window.open function. The page needs to pass a string value to this window. Whenever there is a '&' in the string the remainder of the string is dropped by the new window. So if it passed say 'peanut buter & jam' the window would only see 'peanut butter'. I used a server.urlencode on the 1st page which is supposed to convert the '&' to & I believe. It doesn't seem to be properly doing the server.urlencode. Perhaps it is because it is within a javascript function call. Anyone know how I can get around this? Thanks.

 

[shaddow]

You should use escape function from JavaScript

-- a.html --
<script language=javascript>
window.open("b.html?"+escape("Jam & Bam"),"","");
</script>

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[vongrunt]

Or Server.HTMLEncode from ASP.

Server.URLEncode does URL encoding (RFC 1738).

 

[Jeremy21b]

Thanks. That escape function appears to work.