Server.URLEncode Question

[stfarm]

Maybe I am going the wrong direction, but here is what I am trying to do, and maybe you could advice me how to go about it.

I would like to encode or scrample an url string, and I also would like them to be NOT visible in the status bar.

For example:

http://www.flintco.com/Project_Detail.asp?txt=Correctional&Key=5636

I would like "txt=Correctional&Key=5636" to be encoded, I was experimeting with it, but could not get it to work.

Could somebode please help me out. Thank you.

Steve

 

[vbkris]

why not use post method???

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[stfarm]

How to you"POST" a link like that?

http://www.flintco.com/Project_Detail.asp?txt=Correctional&Key=5636

That's not in a form, and I think it would be to much code.

There must be a better way. Anybody?

Steve

 

[onpnt]

I think you may have URLEncode a bit mixed on it's usage.

The URLEncode encodes per url rules or in short takes certain characters and sets them to the rules that would apply while passing them through a url to be interpruted correctly

as in a space = +

If you are looking to encode in such a way the user will not easily recognize the true meaning of the querystring, building your own function to convert to a unique char set would be the best way.

vbkris has the best suggestion though IMHO also.

If you submit the values via a POST method (which can be done dynamically) instead of a querystring pass, then the values will not be visible and secure.

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[vbkris]

o.k guys i will give a workaround.

u can use post and still open a new window with something like this:

function popupwin()
{
 document.Form.method="post"
 document.Form.action="popupwindow"
 document.form.target="_blank"

 //after this code revert back
 document.Form.method="post"
 document.Form.action="normal page"
 document.form.target="_self"
 //u dont do this ur normal submit itself will open in a new window
}

now in ur popu window u can refer all variables using post method...

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[Genimuse]

If you're going to resort to Javascript, there's a much, much easier way to hide the link (I understand that vbkris' code is designed to allow for posted anchors).

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.url.com"[/URL] onMouseOver="status='';return true">LinkTextHere</a>

If you don't want to use JavaScript you can effectively obscure the URL using a form of URLEncoding. You'd just work through your string character by character, creating a new string by replacing each old character with this:

"%" & Hex(Asc(YourCharHere))

The resulting link will look like %68%74%74%70%%3A%2F%sF etc., but clicking it will still work. I'm pretty sure it will show up as the string of hex in the status bar of most/all browsers, but I haven't tested it. It's possible that the "

http://"

part has to be unencoded, not sure.