'%' Character on the URL

[Mohammad Jaber]

hi ,
how can i send a parameter equals to '%' through the URL , '%' considered as a white space on the browser , is there a way to escape it or to change the browsers behavior .. thanks in advance

[Eric Pascarello]

use %25 inplace of just %

Eric

[Mohammad Jaber]

Thanks it works fine ...

[Christophe Verré]

This may be out of subject considering we're in a Javascript forum, but you can encode the url's parameters using JSTL's <c aram> tag. This will ensure that all special characters will be encoded properly.

[Bear Bibeault]

Use the Javascript encodeURI() method to easily encode a URL.