urlencode question

[willaguila]

I'm testing urlencode to code the characters below and in the source produced by the page it is encoded correctly,

but when I click the made up link I get this in my url: http://localhost/php_sandbox/"bad"22%2F<>character%24

As you can see the "" and <> are not encoded, any idea why this happens?

Using Apache 2

php 5.2.9

 

 

 

<?php

$param2 = '"bad"/<>character$';

 

$test = urlencode($param2);

?>

 

<br/> <a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($test); ?>" >test</a>

 

[rhodesa]

use rawurlencode() instead

[willaguila]

well its my understanding the when dynamically generating urls, anything after the "some.php?" shoulde be urlencode

and anything before the ? should be rawencode.

 

I did forget to mention that it works fine in IE but it is Firefox 3. giving me the issue.