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Server.URLEncode
Used for encoding data that will be passed via a querystring variable. A querystring variable is anything following the question mark (?) in the URL (location) field of your browser. You create querystring variables when you perform a redirect or build a hyperlink to another page on your site.
<a href="page2.asp?name=Joe+Schmoe">here</a>
<%
Response.Redirect "page2.asp?ID=3"
%>
In the example above, the hyperlink contains a variable named "name" which has a value of "Joe Schmoe" (the space is encoded as "+") In the Response.Redirect statement, we have a querystring variabled named "ID" with a value of 3. To perform a URL encode on a variable (for purposes of passing this variable to another page) use the following:
<a href="page2.asp?name=<%= Server.URLEncode(sName) %>">
here</a>
<%
Response.Redirect "page2.asp?ID=" &_
Server.URLEncode(nID)
%>
URLDecode
For some reason, Microsoft did not include a URL decode function with Active Server Pages. Most likely, this was because the decoding of querystring variables is done automatically for you when you access the querystring object:
<%= Request.QueryString("name") %>
For those of you who are desperately in need of this function:
' -----------------------------------------
' URL decode to retrieve the original value
Function URLDecode(sConvert)
Dim aSplit
Dim sOutput
Dim I
If IsNull(sConvert) Then
URLDecode = ""
Exit Function
End If
' convert all pluses to spaces
sOutput = REPLACE(sConvert, "+", " ")
' next convert %hexdigits to the character
aSplit = Split(sOutput, "%")
If IsArray(aSplit) Then
sOutput = aSplit(0)
For I = 0 to UBound(aSplit) - 1
sOutput = sOutput & _
Chr("&H" & Left(aSplit(i + 1), 2)) &_
Right(aSplit(i + 1), Len(aSplit(i + 1)) -
