NAME

       ns_urlencode - URL encode a string.

SYNOPSIS

       ns_urlencode string
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DESCRIPTION

       Encodes  given  string  according  to  the encoding defined in RFC #1738, Uniform Resource
       Locators.  The command encodes all non-alphanumeric characters in data. The encoding for a
       character  is  a  "%"  followed  by  the  two-character hexadecimal representation for the
       character.

EXAMPLE

       The following command:
              ns_urlencode "http://www.aolserver.com/redirect.adp?url=http://www.aol.com&t=1,2,3"

       returns:
              http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eaolserver%2ecom%2fredirect%2eadp%3furl%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww%2eaol%2ecom%26t%3d1%2c2%2c3

SEE ALSO

       ns_urldecode(n)

KEYWORDS

       encoding, url