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[iggitme]

Asking for help here... have this

var z=document.getElementById("item_description").value;
parent.desc.location.href = 'index.cgi?z=sd&w=saveDESC&item_description=' + z;

need to have a regex in there to permit non alphanumeric characters to pass without becoming something else..

example: sending a % throug this winds up being a 0 instead
and other characters such as + are ignored, while characters like @ and & result in an error sent to the perl script doing the actual work after it receives from this script

so.... is there a very simple regex to allow non alphanumeric characters to pass through this script , escaped or not, so what is typed into the text field, actually winds up being what gets saved from that text field

thank you for your help

 

[jaxtell]

Its not a javascript or a regex answer, but why not just call index.cgi with POST variables?

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[iggitme]

I have no choice in how its done. It is a javascript submission done in onblur in conjunction with another submission done with another method... characters are not passing through the javascript intact... % becomes 0 others kill the transaction with the perl script ...

OK nevermind... thanks for the input... i'll figure this out the hard way.

 

[ggriffit]

can you show us a before and after URL to show the changes ? it may be that you need to encode the data

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[vicvirk]

I have no choice in how its done. It is a javascript submission done in onblur in conjunction with another submission done with another method... characters are not passing through the javascript intact... % becomes 0 others kill the transaction with the perl script ...

OK nevermind... thanks for the input... i'll figure this out the hard way.

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[iggitme]

ggriffit: Exactly. I was heading toward a regex to add an escape to non alphanumeric characters. But encoding the data makes perfect sense to me. A simple thing.

Thank you for a brilliant solution.