System.Web Namespace   HttpServerUtility Class

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Decodes an HTML string received in a URL and sends the resulting output to a TextWriter output stream.

[ VB ]
Overloads Public Sub UrlDecode ( _
   ByVal s As String, _
   ByVal output As TextWriter _
)

[ C# ]
public void UrlDecode (
   string s,
   TextWriter output
);

[ C++ ]
public: void UrlDecode (
   String* s,
   TextWriter* output
);

[ JScript ]
public function UrlDecode (
   s : String,
   output : TextWriter
);

s

The HTML string to decode.

output

The TextWriter output stream containing the decoded string.

URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmitted text in URL strings. Characters such as "?", "&", "/", and spaces may be truncated or corrupted by some browsers so those characters cannot be used in ASP.NET pages in "<A>" tags or in querystrings where the strings may be sent by a browser in a request string.

The following example decodes the string named EncodedString ( received in a URL ) into the string named DecodedString.

[ VB ] 
Dim writer As New StringWriter
Server.UrlDecode ( EncodedString, writer ) 
Dim DecodedString As String = writer.ToString ( )

[ C# ] 
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ( );
Server.UrlDecode ( EncodedString, writer );
String DecodedString = writer.ToString ( );
   

HttpServerUtility Members   HttpServerUtility.UrlDecode Overload List

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