rawurlencode and IE 5

Anon

Hi all -

Anyone know how to get around IE's interpretation of a rawurlencoded string passed into a url?

Example:

$data = "I'm Going to the Mall";

IE seems to interpret all the % signs as their corresponding characters, thus defeating the entire purpose. Works in Netscape, tho.

Thanks,

shaBANG

kailien

Based on my experience, IE5 shows the hold string with space in them, but it will recognize the whole value (in this case, the whole sentence with spaces). In contrast, Netscape does NOT recognize all the spaces in between the value. Therefore, you must rawurlencode() the value. With that said, after you rawencode(), both IE5 and Netscape should work.

Are you having problems after rawurlencode() in IE5?

Even thought the link does not show all the %20, etc, it will still work in IE5.

Kai

Anon

it is displayed in the html that way. that's not the problem.

even using rawurlencode, the link is displayed with regular characters in the status bar when I move the mouse over, and it passes the string with regular characters as opposed to the corresponding rawurlencoded symbols. this results in an error for the strings i'm using.

on php.net they indicate this shortcoming as a bug in IE5, or a feature of IE5, rather, depending on whom you ask. My question still stands - does anyone have a workaround for this?

Thanks,

shaBANG