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morandi3
morandi3

Reputation: 1115

urlencode send form

I have a simple search form 

<form id="search" name="search" method="GET" action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">

But this form doesn't encode all chars in a URL, ' isn't encoded to %27, shouldn't this be done automatically?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (1)

GKK
GKK

Reputation: 384

This is rather funny.. On the HTML specification it states that all Non-alphanumeric characters are represented by %HH (according to RFC 1738, Section 2.2). But if you actually go to the RFC1738, Section 2.2 has the following:

Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
unencoded within a URL.

But Chrome seems to follow the specification to the letter, where as IE and Firefox choose to not encode those characters..

Upvotes: 1

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