URL Encoding Name Value Params for HTTP GET POST
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This is a useful tip for those who do integration with Yozons eSignForms. When you post data (or add to an URL), both the parameter name and parameter value should be URL encode.
Source is from PayPal: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/NVPAPIOverview/
Use the following methods to URL-encode or URL-decode your NVP strings:
Table 1. Encoding and decoding methods for URLs
| Language | Method | |
| ASP.NET | Encode | System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(buffer, Encoding.Default) |
| Decode | System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(buffer, Encoding.Default) | |
| Classic ASP | Encode | Server.URLEncode |
| Decode | No built-in function. Several implementation examples are available on the Internet. | |
| Java | Encode | java.net.URLEncoder.encode |
| Decode | java.net.URLDecoder.decode | |
| PHP | Encode | urlencode() |
| Decode | urldecode() | |
| ColdFusion | Encode | URLEncodedFormatstring [, charset] |
| Decode | URLDecodeurlEncodedString[, charset]) |