I'm trying to do something like this so I can grab the information out of the URL from a c# webbrowser, I later break up the decoded url using & as an endpoint for the sections:
string theURL = System.Uri.UnescapeDataString(webBrowser1.Url.ToString().Replace("%26","and")).Replace('+',' ');
My problem is that it seems when I call .ToString() on the webBrowser1.Url it automatically converts %26 to & effectively ruining my URL. I need to preserve the %26 until I can handle it myself and replace it with something else.
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I tried an alternative method like this as well but param1 always came back blank for some reason, I could never get anything out of it:
string queryString = webBrowser1.Url.Query;
var q = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(queryString);
var param1 = q["paramname"];
This also gave me blanks:
foreach (var element in q)
{
MessageBox.Show(element.ToString());
}
Try webBrowser1.Url.OriginalString. That should preserve the original URL.
The ToString method of System.Uri is overridden and returns the canonical representation. Check the example which just shows this in the documentation.
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Im calling an API that returns part of a URL that I have to concatenate on code after.
The value im getting is:
"\"SYSTEM\/PRODUCTION\/TEMP\/preauthletter_7470D75C-594D-4132-BAEE-F7339B034DD8_110220201138.pdf\""
When I try to concatenate to my base URL the result is an invalid URL because of the previews extras slash and quotes.
var result = _reportEngine.GetPreAuthorizationLetter().Result;
// result is the URL part having the extra slashes
result = string.Format(#"http://cloud.demo.com/{0}", result);
Is there any .NET method that cleans this so I can get a valid URL.
The result expected should be:
http://cloud.demo.com/SYSTEM/PRODUCTION/TEMP/preauthletter_7470D75C-594D-4132-BAEE-F7339B034DD8_110220201138.pdf
UPDATE
The problem I guess is that API is returning as json instead of just pure string.
Found how to solve it, I just had to deserialize it into a string:
result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<string>(result);
And voila!!
I'm trying to UrlEncode a web address using Uri.EscapeDataString, but the result isn't correct. Here's an example:
string url = "https://mega.co.nz/#!GVZFwAbB!NzdN2jp7A_WmQBLC4RJrCX8SzixFIEo7oZZARaMAmXQ";
string encodedUrl = Uri.EscapeDataString(url);
Expected result would be:
https%3a%2f%2fmega.co.nz%2f%23!GVZFwAbB!NzdN2jp7A_WmQBLC4RJrCX8SzixFIEo7oZZARaMAmXQ
But the actual one is:
https%253a%252f%252fmega.co.nz%252f%2523%21GVZFwAbB%21NzdN2jp7A_WmQBLC4RJrCX8SzixFIEo7oZZARaMAmXQ
As you can see, there's a bunch of extra %25s that don't belong there. Isn't %25 the encode for "%"? There are no %s in my original string... what's going on?
EDIT: I can't use the System.Web assembly for this project, so unfortunately I can't use the HttpUtility.UrlEncode() method for this.
Well, after searching around a bit more, it seems that this does the job, without relying on system web:
System.Net.WebUtility.UrlEncode(url);
The encoding is the correct one, without %25s.
Uri.EscapeDataString doesn't encode URL. Use HttpUtility.UrlEncode instead.
string url = "https://mega.co.nz/#!GVZFwAbB!NzdN2jp7A_WmQBLC4RJrCX8SzixFIEo7oZZARaMAmXQ";
string encodedUrl = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url);
Result is:
https%3a%2f%2fmega.co.nz%2f%23!GVZFwAbB!NzdN2jp7A_WmQBLC4RJrCX8SzixFIEo7oZZARaMAmXQ
Does anyone know how to get the entire string?
Example:
var result = Request.QueryString[id];
returns "Jack" instead of "Jack & Jill" for the URL "http://website.com/test.html?=Jack&Jill
The problem is not in reading the parameter, but in constructing it. You have to change your link, or the code that creates the link.
You have to use URL escaping encoding:
http://website.com/test.html?=Jack%26Jill
URL encoding is supported in .NET (HttpUtility) and JS (global functions) as well.
& is a special character used to seperate paramaeters being passed. You need to encode your Url using ASP.NET provided functions.
Please use HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode() when assigning the url to id
I have a url:
http://www.abc.com?refurl=/english/info/test.aspx?form=1&h=test&s=AB
If I use
Request.QueryString["refurl"
but gives me
/english/info/test.aspx?form=1
instead I need full url
/english/info/test.aspx?form=1&h=test&s=AB
Fix the problem, and the problem is that you place a full url as parameter refurl with out encoding it.
So where you create that url string use the UrlEncode() function, eg:
"http://www.abc.com?refurl=" + Server.UrlEncode(ReturnUrlParam)
where
ReturnUrlParam="/english/info/test.aspx?form=1&h=test&s=AB";
For that particular case you shouldn't use QueryString, (since your query string contains three parameters,) instead use Uri class, and Uri.Query will give you the required result.
Uri uri = new Uri(#"http://www.abc.com?refurl=/english/info/test.aspx?form=1&h=test&s=AB");
string query = uri.Query;
Which will give you :
?refurl=/english/info/test.aspx?form=1&h=test&s=AB
Later you can remove ?refurl= to get the desired output.
I am pretty sure there is no direct way in the framework for your particular requirement, you have to implement that in your code and that too with string operations.
I had similar situation some time ago.
I solved it by encoding refurl value.
now my url looks similar to that one:
http://www.abc.com?refurl=adsf45a4sdf8sf18as4f6as4fd
I have created 2 methods:
public string encode(string);
public string decode(string);
Before redirect or where you have your link, you simple encode the link and where you are reading it, decode before use:
Response.redirect(String.Format("http://www.abc.com?refurl={0}", encode(/english/info/test.aspx?form=1&h=test&s=AB));
And in the page that you are using refurl:
$refUrl = Request.QueryString["refurl"];
$refUrl = decode($refUrl);
EDIT:
encode/decode methods I actually have as extension methods, then for every string I can simply use string.encode() or string.decode().
you should replace the & with &.
i have an ashx file that requires some query-string values to deliver appropriate images.
The problem is some search engines urlencode then htmlencode those urls in their cache or when they index those.
So for example instead of getting
/preview.ashx?file=abcd.jpg&root=small
i get
/preview.ashx?file=abcd.jpg&root=small
this basically throws off the context.Request.QueryString["root"] so it thinks that there's no variable root
i guess the second key in the querystring is amp;root i.e the part after the & sign.
What i'm wondering is if there's a way to automatically html and urldecode the querystring on serverside so that the program doesn't get confused.
There is no harm in calling HttpUtility.HtmlDecode or HttpUtility.UrlDecode more than once.
string queryString = "/preview.ashx?file=abcd.jpg&root=small";
var parsedString = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(queryString);
var root = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(parsedString)["root"];
To URL encode and decode you can use the following methods:
string encoded = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url);
string decoded = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(url);
I've seen instances in the past where the Query String has been doubly encoded. In which case you'll need to doubly decode — this may be your issue...