Erick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I've noticed that the HttpUtility.UrlDecode doesn't handle > some of the old style character escapes, such as "&" and > " ". While I understand that the %xx format should be > used, a lot of sites still use the older style of escapes. Is > there some way to convert these escapes, or should I manually > replace "&" with %26 and " " with +? > > If it's a manual process, does anyone know if there is a > definitive list of these non standard escapes, or is that an oxymoron? It's because & and &nbps; are not, and never were, valid url encoded sequences. They're SGML encoded entities... which are totally different. If someone puts & into a uri it should be encoded as %26amp%3B. If you need to escape or decode SGML (i.e. HTML/XML) entities then use HttpUtility::HtmlEncode/Decode. HTH, Drew You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
