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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/19/06 11:27
Gerry Vandermaesen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What would be the best way to encode and optimally also compress a long
> string with URL unsafe characters to be passed as a GET parameter?
>
> Example string:
>
> /search.ds?&what=hotel&where=antwerpen&when=&startingPageNumber=1&stageName=What%20search&originalOffset=1&expandWWWSearch=false&myplaces=false&activeRefinements=locality4..%3D..Antwerpen..%26..Antwerpen&distance=0&searchType=www&activeSort=-beyprandom1%20-beboost%20-boost3&phoneNumberSearch=false&debug=&excludeZone=false&alphaRefineable=AY52%7CBN18%7CCN30%7CDN53%7CEN10%7CFN16%7CGN10%7CHN56%7CIN9%7CJN3%7CKN10%7CLN8%7CMN23%7CNN7%7CON7%7CPN13%7CQN1%7CRN10%7CSN19%7CTN29%7CUN0%7CVN26%7CWN5%7CXN0%7CYN0%7CZN1%7C%5B0-9%5DN0&headingNumber=&adtype=xml.click&partnerId=&mfinfo.partner_id=&encodedRefinement=heading..%3D..%5EKoffiezetmachines%24..%26..Koffiezetmachines
>
> (yes I know the example is an URL itself, but I need the entire string
> to be passed as a GET parameter)
>
Uh... maybe urlencode()?
Also, don't know what you mean by "compress". Compressing something
typically gives non-alphanumeric chars. Then making those URL-safe
would require replacing them with 3-4 chars such as %148. Somewhat a
losing proposition.
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