Re: Flash and ASP - url-encoding

Never mind

The script I was using was just a little underpowered for the full allowable
character set. If anyone else needs this functionality, I'll post a url for
the best working url-encoder script I could find.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Innes" <innax(at)icon.co.za>
To: "HWG Techniques Email List" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: Flash and ASP - url-encoding


> Hi All
>
> I'm hoping someone can help with what seems like a very simple question.
>
> I have a flash file that is reading info from an asp file, which in turn
is
> reading xml data from a remote server at fifteen minute intervals. Flash
> needs variables passed in url-encoded format. e.g. "number 1" would be
> passed as "number%201&".
>
> I have a script which does a simple conversion from plain text to
> url-encoded format, but it doesn't get a "+" sign, because this is the
> url-encoding alternative to "%20" for a space between two characters.
Thus,
> my file reads the plus sign as a space.
>
> Can anyone think of a workaround?
>
> Regards
>
> Andy
>

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