urlencoding ' apostrofies?

[Anon]

I have a page (server1) that sends a urlencoded querystring to a form on another server (server2).
The querystring can be built/created like this (on server1):
$url = page.php?number='&value=Peter Be
$url = urlencode($url)
And here is the value of the variable url:
url = page.php?number=%5C&value=Peter+Be
when I want it to be just '.

When this URL is received on server2, and the querystring variables are converted to:
number = \' (I.e. from querystring %5C to \')
value = Peter Be

How can I prevent this? I want to be able to use a URL like this:
http://www.webpage.com/page.php?number='&value=Peter+Be

Any hints urgently appreciated.

[Anon]

You can try not to urlencode the URL sent from server1. But Netscape does not like that at all. IE will handle it though.

Otherwise, is there no way you can substitute ' ?

Steven

[Anon]

The reason for all confusion was that I had built the pages using
magic_quotes_gpc=Off in php.ini

During the development work I have had to turn it on for phpMyAdmin.

That's it, and that's that 🙂