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akinuri
akinuri

Reputation: 12027

Escaping ' and & and similar characters in url

I need a way to encode both ' and & in a url. Check the following examples:

// "get_records.php?artist=Mumford%20%26%20Sons"
"get_records.php?artist=" + encodeURIComponent("Mumford & Sons"); 

// "get_records.php?artist=Gigi%20D'Agostinos"
"get_records.php?artist=" + encodeURIComponent("Gigi D'Agostino");

encodeURIComponent doesn't encode '. I can use escape instead, but it's deprecated, I guess. What do I do in this case? Create a custom encoder?

I'll be escaping other characters too: :, /, ., ,, !, for example, for the following strings

"11:59"
"200 km/h in the Wrong Lane"
"P.O.D."
"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We"
"Up!"

So creating a custom encoder seems like the best option. Is there an alternative approach that I can use?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 60

Answers (2)

GIA
GIA

Reputation: 1716

You can replace characters before create URL.

' = %27

Check this: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

Upvotes: 0

TimoStaudinger
TimoStaudinger

Reputation: 42510

You will have to implement this functionality yourself.

MDN covers this exact topic. Extending their proposal to cover the & character and others as well should be trival.

To be more stringent in adhering to RFC 3986 (which reserves !, ', (, ), and *), even though these characters have no formalized URI delimiting uses, the following can be safely used:

function fixedEncodeURIComponent (str) {
  return encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/[!'()*]/g, function(c) {
    return '%' + c.charCodeAt(0).toString(16);
  });
}

Source

Upvotes: 1

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