Request.QueryString ignoring characters

[Andy Beetz]

Hi all,

can anyone tell me why when I send this to my aspx page, I get the
spaces but not the GBP sign?

http://localhost/test/default.aspx?Body=it%20is%20%A310

my web.config has request and response encoding set to utf-8 if it makes
any difference.

Thanks in advance

 

[Felbrigg]

Possibly due to your culture setting in the web-confg. try

culture="en-GB"

in the globalisation section.

 

[Andy Beetz]

Possibly due to your culture setting in the web-confg. try

culture="en-GB"

in the globalisation section.

Thanks for the prompt reply, but it didn't fix it
any other ideas?

Thanks
Andy

 

[Patrice Scribe]

I made a quick try. It looks like to me this is not properly encoded. It
should be :
%c2%a3

See if your browser has always send Querystring encoded as UTF-8 checked.

Generally I pass IDs rather than strings in the QueryString anyway...

Patrice


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[Felbrigg]

Good pointer Patrice, text in the querystring is a messy afair. Often if
you need to pass a string arouns its better to bung in the session on the
calling page and remove it ( once used) on the recieving page.

 

[Andy Beetz]

I made a quick try. It looks like to me this is not properly encoded. It
should be :
%c2%a3

<snip>

thanks, that does work unfortunately I can't use an ID or session
variable as it being called from an external automated system passing
messages to it. I'm assuming this problem wouldn't have occurred if it was
using POST instead of GET. I guess it might be something to consider.

Thanks again guys
Andy

 

[bruce barker]

a POST uses the same format as a GET for passing data. in a POST the form
data is url encode and passed as content.


-- bruce (sqlwork.com)