On Feb 5, 2008 4:38 AM, Bruce Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There is the URLDECODE stage, which may also found under its old name
> of URLDEBLOCK.  I find the help for it in the author's help library.

But I think Bob was actually looking for the inverse operation.
Browsing the RFC gives at least 22 code points that would need to be
escaped. Alternatively, it offers 11 characters plus letters and
digits that would not need to be encoded.
Since the RFC allows for that, would it be an option to escape *all*
characters in the URL (except those that need to have their special
meaning)?

I see no options beyond a cascade of a lot of "change" stages. Make
sure you put the % first and the most likely ones last. And it might
be attractive to wrap part of the change stages in a "verify" to avoid
needless passing through all stages.
Even when you generate a change for all ~ 180 remaining code points,
it still would be cheaper than a fblock 1 with a lookup stage.

Rob

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