php value passing in netscape

[Anon]

okay, new Netscape 4.7 headache... here is the deal. I am passing variables from one script to another when changing webpages. here is an example of the code inside one of my links:

passvalue.php?$name

$name is a variable for the category name in my mysql database. sometimes it can be one word like "JACK" or sometimes more than one word like "JACK AND JILL". the problem is that netscape doesn't like the spaces (i am assuming). When passed in IE or Netscape 6, it works fine and the browsers automatically detect the spaces and implements the ascii equivalents (ie "JACK%20AND%20JILL") netscape 4 isn't doing this and I am getting an HTTP Error 400. any ideas on how to fix this or make netscape 4.7 work properly with it?

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[Anon]

You need to use rawurlencode() on these variables. Also, you really should be sending them as name=value pairs, rather than just a raw value:

echo <a href="passvalue.php?name=" . rawurlencode($name)
. "\">Name</a>

[Anon]

Sorry, it's kind of hard to properly quote code here sometimes:

echo "<a href=\"passvalue.php?name=" . rawurlencode($name)
. "\">Name</a>";

[Anon]

Now that I see it as rendered, I notice that there are no embedded variables, so it could be said with single quotes and no escapes needed:

echo '<a href="passvalue.php?name=' . rawurlencode($name)
. '">Name</a&gt';