query string limitations

[Zarcom]

Hey All you happy people.

I would like to know if it is possible to send certain characters through a query string. By certian characters I mean "#"

I ran across a bug in my application where someone enters # for a value. When trying to view that record later "comes through a query string" I get errors where anything after the # value in the query string is considered null and void. aka blank.
Thanks for your time. That'l do donkey, that'l do
Mark

 

[jfrost10]

You may have to encode it first
(i.e. < = &lt > = &gt)
, then send it down the pipe. On the other end, have the page parse through the entries and switch any of those it finds back.

Just off the top of my head

Jack

 

[link9]

best to .htmlEncode any and all values sent via querystring...

It's basically the ascii equivalent prefaced w/ a % sign, where a blank space would be:

%20

But server.htmlEncode will do it for you.

Specifically, I'm not for sure on whether the # sign will cause problems, but apparently, you have established that, so just go with the encoding. ;-)

paul

 

[Zarcom]

I am not sure what you mean by encode Jack.
Do you know if there are other problem characters as far as the query string goes? That'l do donkey, that'l do
Mark

 

[jfrost10]

ROFLMAO!!!

My post encoded my encoding characters.

what it should have said was:
< = & lt > = & gt (just without the spaces after the &)



Jack

 

[Zarcom]

Ha ha that is some funny shite Jack That'l do donkey, that'l do
Mark