problem with get-url or encoding

[Ishtiaq Ahmed]

Hi,

I am having problem with meta-data values in kannel... Some of the 
meta-data values has special characters in it like '$', '+', '_'... etc

When the meta-data is sent to the application using

get-url = 
"http://MO:7080/ooobermoframework/receivemsg.htm?sender=%p&text=%a&shortcode=%P&operatorid=%o&meta-data=%D&smscid=%i";

The value specially "+" sign is appearing as space...

Is there is some problem with my get url... or some way we can encode 
them properly...


Thanks,

Ishtiaq Ah,ed