[ciapug] special chars in urls

[Scott Phillips]

Whwah?  That's a new one for me.  I'll have to give it a try for 
kicks.  Reminds me of those blog permalinks done with the apache 
mod_rewrite module.


At 09:20 AM 6/24/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>There is another way to do it without any encoding at all using the
>$PATH_INFO variable.
>
>The URL would look something like this:
>
>direct.php/http://www.foobar.com/blah.asp?id=5&action=poop
>
>use $QUERY_STRING to access the query.
>
>here is an example:
>
>####### direct.php ######
><? echo("PATH_INFO = $PATH_INFO"); echo("
>"); echo("QUERY_STRING = $QUERY_STRING"); ?>
>###########################
>
>After running direct.php/http://www.foobar.com/blah.asp?id=5&action=poop
>you would get:
>PATH_INFO = /http://www.foobar.com/blah.asp
>QUERY_STRING = id=5&action=poop
>
>Just remove the first '/' on $PATH_INFO and you are set to go.
>
>Bye
>Cesar Mendoza
>http://www.kitiara.org
>--
>"The fate of all mankind I see
>Is in the hands of fools."
>   --King Crimson, Epitaph
>
>
>On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:43AM -0500, 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
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