System.Web Namespace   HttpServerUtility Class

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URL encodes a string and sends the resulting output to a TextWriter output stream.

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

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

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

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

s

The text string to encode.

output

The TextWriter output stream containing the encoded 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 encodes a string for transmission by HTTP. It encodes the string named TestString, which contains the text "This is a <Test String>.", and copies it into the string named EncodedString as "This+is+a+%3cTest+String%3e.".

[ VB ] 
Dim TestString As String = "This is a <Test String>."
Dim writer As New StringWriter
Server.UrlEncode ( TestString, writer ) 
Dim EncodedString As String = writer.ToString ( )

[ C# ] 
String TestString = "This is a <Test String>.";
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter ( );
Server.UrlEncode ( TestString, writer );
String EncodedString = writer.ToString ( );
   

HttpServerUtility Members   HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode Overload List

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