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travis
travis

Reputation: 36473

Does C# have an equivalent to JavaScript's encodeURIComponent()?

In JavaScript:

encodeURIComponent("©√") == "%C2%A9%E2%88%9A"

Is there an equivalent for C# applications? For escaping HTML characters I used:

txtOut.Text = Regex.Replace(txtIn.Text, @"[\u0080-\uFFFF]",
    m => @"&#" + ((int)m.Value[0]).ToString() + ";");

But I'm not sure how to convert the match to the correct hexadecimal format that JS uses. For example this code:

txtOut.Text = Regex.Replace(txtIn.Text, @"[\u0080-\uFFFF]",
    m => @"%" + String.Format("{0:x}", ((int)m.Value[0])));

Returns "%a9%221a" for "©√" instead of "%C2%A9%E2%88%9A". It looks like I need to split the string up into bytes or something.

Edit: This is for a windows app, the only items available in System.Web are: AspNetHostingPermission, AspNetHostingPermissionAttribute, and AspNetHostingPermissionLevel.

Upvotes: 171

Views: 146029

Answers (7)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 31652

Uri.EscapeDataString or HttpUtility.UrlEncode is the correct way to escape a string meant to be part of a URL.

Take for example the string "Stack Overflow":

  • HttpUtility.UrlEncode("Stack Overflow") --> "Stack+Overflow"

  • Uri.EscapeUriString("Stack Overflow") --> "Stack%20Overflow"

  • Uri.EscapeDataString("Stack + Overflow") --> Also encodes "+" to "%2b" ---->Stack%20%2B%20%20Overflow

Only the last is correct when used as an actual part of the URL (as opposed to the value of one of the query string parameters)

Upvotes: 290

Ali Mamedov
Ali Mamedov

Reputation: 5256

I tried to do full compatible analog of javascript's encodeURIComponent for c# and after my 4 hour experiments I found this

c# CODE:

string a = "!@#$%^&*()_+ some text here али мамедов баку";
a = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(a);
a = a.Replace("+", "%20");

the result is: !%40%23%24%25%5e%26*()_%2b%20some%20text%20here%20%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%20%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%b4%d0%be%d0%b2%20%d0%b1%d0%b0%d0%ba%d1%83

After you decode It with Javascript's decodeURLComponent();

you will get this: !@#$%^&*()_+ some text here али мамедов баку

Thank You for attention

Upvotes: 21

Cœur
Cœur

Reputation: 38717

For a Windows Store App, you won't have HttpUtility. Instead, you have:

For an URI, before the '?':

  • System.Uri.EscapeUriString("example.com/Stack Overflow++?")
    • -> "example.com/Stack%20Overflow++?"

For an URI query name or value, after the '?':

  • System.Uri.EscapeDataString("Stack Overflow++")
    • -> "Stack%20Overflow%2B%2B"

For a x-www-form-urlencoded query name or value, in a POST content:

  • System.Net.WebUtility.UrlEncode("Stack Overflow++")
    • -> "Stack+Overflow%2B%2B"

Upvotes: 11

David Thibault
David Thibault

Reputation: 8736

HttpUtility.HtmlEncode / Decode
HttpUtility.UrlEncode / Decode

You can add a reference to the System.Web assembly if it's not available in your project

Upvotes: 23

Echilon
Echilon

Reputation: 10264

System.Uri.EscapeUriString() didn't seem to do anything, but System.Uri.EscapeDataString() worked for me.

Upvotes: 16

Mitchel Sellers
Mitchel Sellers

Reputation: 63136

You can use the Server object in the System.Web namespace

Server.UrlEncode, Server.UrlDecode, Server.HtmlEncode, and Server.HtmlDecode.

Edit: poster added that this was a windows application and not a web one as one would believe. The items listed above would be available from the HttpUtility class inside System.Web which must be added as a reference to the project.

Upvotes: 6

Billy Jo
Billy Jo

Reputation: 1332

Try Server.UrlEncode(), or System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode() for instances when you don't have access to the Server object. You can also use System.Uri.EscapeUriString() to avoid adding a reference to the System.Web assembly.

Upvotes: 10

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