[development] URL encoding

[nitin gupta]

Hi,

I am not creating the URL, but I parse the URL from XML content and I want
to urlencode it. Also, I am looking to preserve all the reserved characters
in the URL and not just '?' or '&'.

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Regards,
Nitin Kumar Gupta
http://publicmind.in/blog/


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Don <donald at fane.com> wrote:

>  If you use l() or url() the query section is passed separately, so the '?'
> and '&' are preserved. The query attributes are passed in an array as
> name/value pairs. That's the real drupal way to make a link also.
>
> -Don-
>
>
> On 3/11/2010 8:23 AM, nitin gupta wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convert a URL to its encoded equivalent. i.e.
> http://example.com/path with spaces/ to
> http://example.com/path%20with%20spaces/.
>
> The problem I am facing is that rawurlencode or urlencode, encodes all the
> characters and does not show mercy upon the reserved characters such as '?',
> '#', '=' which makes the URL invalid after encoding. I understand that this
> behavior of these functions is expected considering the fact that they are
> to be used to encode data (such as query) that can be appended in an URL,
> but it isn't helping the current situation.
>
> I thought of the following procedure to achieve the above:
>
>    1. run rawurldecode on the input url, so that we do not accidentally
>    encode twice if whole or part of URL is already encoded.
>    2. then run rawurlencode, and then preg replace these reserved
>    characters.
>
> Though it works, I am not sure if it is the correct way to handle this. Any
> help through ideas or code will be highly appreciated as this will be useful
> in Feeds Image Grabber <http://drupal.org/project/feeds_imagegrabber> and Facebook-style
> Links <http:///drupal.org/project/facebook_link> module.
>
> Also, off the subject: shouldn't drupal_http_request() should take care of
> such encoding?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nitin Kumar Gupta
> http://publicmind.in/blog/
>
>
>
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