[ciapug] special chars in urls

[Scott Phillips]

Ah, ha!

urlencode()

Nevermind.

At 10:36 AM 6/21/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I want to create a page (direct.php) that can take a url as a parameter like:
>
>direct.php?url=http://www.foobar.com/blah.asp?id=5&action=poop
>
>but the ? and & characters will cause problems, no?  At first, I thought 
>passing the url parameter through htmlspecialchar() when creating the link 
>might work...  until I actually thought about it.  (Duh.)  There must be 
>some other way to do it.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>
>Scott Phillips
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