Query string in asp page

[Don Grover]

In asp how How can i pass a parameter value with a space in the value

like this

test.asp?catalog=aValue&lineitem=ladies cloths

I get a %20 as a space in the browser window,
Regards
Don

[Gram]

Don,

Usually the %20 doesn't cause problems for me, but if you have to keep the
space, you might try:

<%
query = request.querystring("query")
query = Replace(query, "%20", " ")
response.write query
%>
<a href="test.asp?query=my name">Click me</a>

The replace function here removes any '%20' it finds and replaces it with a
space

Hope this helps.

Gram

[Kai Boenke]

Gram wrote:
[snip replace function]

> The replace function here removes any '%20' it finds and replaces it with a
> space

This won't work due to the nature of the HTTP standard (should be
somewhere within RFC 2616).
Because a http query string cannot contain spaces within a request
(blanks are userd as separators f.ex. "GET index.html") they are being
replaced by your browser automatically. Therefore some kind of
server-sided replace function will not work - and even should not work.
However, your webserver knows about this and replaces all %20 with
spaces so you can access your variables again with spaces instead of %20.

This does affect other special characteres as well. There is a
server-function that you can use to encrypt a string before processing
your document to the client: Server.HTMLencode (SomeString)

[Ray at]

Or Server.URLEncode(SomeString)

Ray at home

"Kai Boenke" <kai.boenke@de.bosch.com> wrote in message
news:bmoag2$436$1@ns2.fe.internet.bosch.com...

> Gram wrote:
> [snip replace function]

> > The replace function here removes any '%20' it finds and replaces it

with a

> > space

>
> This won't work due to the nature of the HTTP standard (should be
> somewhere within RFC 2616).
> Because a http query string cannot contain spaces within a request
> (blanks are userd as separators f.ex. "GET index.html") they are being
> replaced by your browser automatically. Therefore some kind of
> server-sided replace function will not work - and even should not work.
> However, your webserver knows about this and replaces all %20 with
> spaces so you can access your variables again with spaces instead of %20.
>
> This does affect other special characteres as well. There is a
> server-function that you can use to encrypt a string before processing
> your document to the client: Server.HTMLencode (SomeString)
>

[Kai Boenke]

Ray at <%=sLocation%> wrote:

> Or Server.URLEncode(SomeString)
>
> "Kai Boenke" <kai.boenke@de.bosch.com> wrote in message
> news:bmoag2$436$1@ns2.fe.internet.bosch.com...

>> [snip other stuff]
>>This does affect other special characteres as well. There is a
>>server-function that you can use to encrypt a string before processing
>>your document to the client: Server.HTMLencode (SomeString)

You are right.
"Server.HTMLencode (SomeString)" actually does something different (not
completely but useless in this case): Converting characters to HTML
entities.