javascript

[hemant singh]

Hi All
In my application i dynamically create link references and if they come to
be something like <a href="somefile.jsp?query=abc#09*(">link</a> and
clicking this link takes me to another page where i retrieve this query
value , i get only those characters before # appear(ie i get abc in this
case).can anybody suggest any way of transfering special characters in the
querystring....i have already tried out escape and unescape methods.
Hemant

[David O'Meara]

Special characters in URLs get escaped by converting them to the 2-digit hexadecimal value of the character with a '%' before it. ie a space character's hex code is 20 therefore it gets escaped as &space=%20
I don't have a list of the char to hex mappings but I'm sure someone has them somewhere (or you could write something to get them yourself)
Dave.

[hemant singh]

thanks david...but dont we have some method in java or JSP which does this for us automatically..

Originally posted by David O'Meara:
Special characters in URLs get escaped by converting them to the 2-digit hexadecimal value of the character with a '%' before it. ie a space character's hex code is 20 therefore it gets escaped as [b]&space=%20
I don't have a list of the char to hex mappings but I'm sure someone has them somewhere (or you could write something to get them yourself)
Dave.[/B]

[David O'Meara]

well, if you have the data in a form it will get converted automatically, but I don't have a book handy at the moment to see if there is an automatic javascript way...

<form method="GET">
   <input type="hidden" name="convertMe" value="!@#$%^&*()_+">
   <input type="submit">
</form>

This is only way I'm aware of getting the automatic character conversion.

[hemant singh]

even if i dont do anything with the generated URL and click over it , the queries are passed at the back end but when i do request.getParameter() , i get only those characters before #...thats the problem.so is there any way to retriev the value available in the query

Originally posted by David O'Meara:
[B]well, if you have the data in a form it will get converted automatically, but I don't have a book handy at the moment to see if there is an automatic javascript way...

<form method="GET">
   <input type="hidden" name="convertMe" value="!@#$%^&*()_+">
   <input type="submit">
</form>

This is only way I'm aware of getting the automatic character conversion.[/B]