ns_urlencode(3) URL encode a string.

SYNOPSIS

ns_urlencode string





DESCRIPTION

Encodes given string according to the encoding defined in RFC #1738, Uniform Resource Locators. The command encodes all non-alphanumeric characters in data. The encoding for a character is a "%" followed by the two-character hexadecimal representation for the character.

EXAMPLE

The following command:

ns_urlencode "http://www.aolserver.com/redirect.adp?url=http://www.aol.com&t=1,2,3"

returns:

http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eaolserver%2ecom%2fredirect%2eadp%3furl%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww%2eaol%2ecom%26t%3d1%2c2%2c3

KEYWORDS

encoding, url