bionic (3) ns_urlencode.3aolserver.gz

Provided by: aolserver4-dev_4.5.1-18.1_amd64 bug

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