Passing special characters in http get request
Have a webpage that is opened from another system with parameters that can contain extended ascii characters:
var pname = Request["pname"];
and shows it on the page with @pname
Works fine for all browsers except IE (even IE11) when pname=Günther or another name with foreign characters; ü, ø and so on.
Example:
The webpage is using <meta charset="UTF-8" />
Why does this work in Chrome and Opera but not in IE?
Any solution? I have no control over the submitting system, som the url cannot be encoded before submit.
http://<host>/submitpage.cshtml?pname=SomeName
var pname = Request["pname"];
and shows it on the page with @pname
Works fine for all browsers except IE (even IE11) when pname=Günther or another name with foreign characters; ü, ø and so on.
Example:
http://<host>/submitpage.cshtml?pname=Günther
The webpage is using <meta charset="UTF-8" />
Why does this work in Chrome and Opera but not in IE?
Any solution? I have no control over the submitting system, som the url cannot be encoded before submit.
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try using HTMLEncode() in combination with some manual escaping of the characters of the url you pass. This article provides more details, but essentially, the code would be:
public static string HtmlEncode( string text ) {
char[] chars = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode( text ).ToCharArray();
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder( text.Length + (int)( text.Length * 0.1 ) );
foreach ( char c in chars ) {
int value = Convert.ToInt32( c );
if ( value > 127 )
result.AppendFormat("&#{0};",value);
else
result.Append( c );
}
return result.ToString();
}
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