[ciapug] special chars in urls

[David Champion]

urlencode?

-dc

Scott Phillips 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
> Web Developer
> Cowles Library, Drake University
> (515) 271-2975
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