<graphicsxp@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've got a url that looks like that :
>
> http://www.myurl.net/Drops 10% - News.doc
>
> Obviously to be properly interpreted by browsers, special characters
> should be converted (% -> %25 and spaces to %20)
>
> Unfortunately I can't seem to find the right function in vb.net to do
> that.... I've tried Server.UrlEncode which converts to a lot of crap,
> and HttpUtility.UrlEncode which doesn't do it properly either...
>
> Anyone knows how to do that ? Can't be that hard :(

On 14 f=E9v, 18:08, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <sk...@pobox.com> wrote:
> <graphic...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I've got a url that looks like that :
>
> >http://www.myurl.net/Drops10% - News.doc
>
> > Obviously to be properly interpreted by browsers, special characters
> > should be converted (% -> %25 and spaces to %20)
>
> > Unfortunately I can't seem to find the right function in vb.net to do
> > that.... I've tried Server.UrlEncode which converts to a lot of crap,
> > and HttpUtility.UrlEncode which doesn't do it properly either...
>
> > Anyone knows how to do that ? Can't be that hard :(
>
> What makes you think they're not working properly? Bear in mind that
> you shouldn't be passing in the first part of the URL - just the "Drops
> 10% - News.doc" into UrlEncode.
>
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On 15 f=E9v, 09:34, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <sk...@pobox.com> wrote:
> <graphic...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > HttpUtility.UrlEncode encodes the url as : Drops+10%25+-+Gulf
> > +News.doc
>
> > That doesn't work in IE or Firefox. Why does it encode spaces with
> > pluses ??! I can understand in the case of a querystring, but here
> > it's a url used as a simple link in my page...
>
> Hmm. I tried using HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode instead, as it's a path
> that you need to encode.
>
> A quick test shows that working slightly better:
> Drops10%%20-%20News.doc
>
> ... but it's not encoding the original % now. I've no idea why.
>
> Admittedly I'd try to avoid having such characters in paths to start
> with, but that *looks* like a bug to me.
>
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<graphicsxp@googlemail.com> wrote:
> HttpUtility.UrlEncode encodes the url as : Drops+10%25+-+Gulf
> +News.doc
>
> That doesn't work in IE or Firefox. Why does it encode spaces with
> pluses ??! I can understand in the case of a querystring, but here
> it's a url used as a simple link in my page...