Re: encodings getting decoded...

Dan Udey <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:55:45 -0800

For safety's sake, I generally restrict URLs to numbers, letters,  

underscores, and dashes. Remove apostrophes and quotes, replace any  

other characters with underscores, and compress consecutive  

underscores. Lowercasing everything is not a bad idea either.

So http://test.com/Testfile_"Test's".htm would become http://test.com/testfile_tests.htm

Your implementation may vary, but explicitly allowing characters  

generally works better than explicitly disallowing.

On 14-Nov-08, at 12:45 PM, Rick Bragg wrote:

I'm using the latest FireFox on Linux.  I am building a web  

application

where these URL's are created dynamically based on a users input in a
"title" field.  I am filtering their input and encoding it, I guess it
would be best to just delete them with the filter.  Is there a list of
all these characters somewhere that I can look at do build my filter?

Thanks!
Rick

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:37 -0800, Dan Udey wrote:

Sounds like a browser issue. My browser (Safari) doesn't do that. Are
you using Internet Explorer? Try another browser.

Also, it's bad practice to have non-URL-safe characters in the URL,
encoded or not.

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