URL Variables

[Universeman]

Hey everyone, I seem to have a slight problem with handling URL variables when using GET on a form.

 

My PHP script takes an input from the user in the form of a url. As it gets passed to itself, the URL becomes malformed (but the scrpit works just fine).

 

Example:

User input in an input named 'url':

http://www.google.com/

URL output after execution via GET:

http://www.mysite.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

 

What I really want is this to show up in the URL instead:

http://www.mysite.com/?url=http://www.google.com/

 

How can I accomplish this?

[jl5501]

The url you are seeing, has been urlencoded.

 

You would need to urldecode the received urlstring to convert it back

[Universeman]

Well, I'm already doing that for my script execution. However, what I'm getting at is how can I make the address bar in the browser show up with urldecoded URL instead of the urlencoded one (basically making it look cleaner).

[jl5501]

There are certain characters that are not allowed in urls, and that is why these characters are sent urlencoded.

 

see http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

[Universeman]

I see. Okay, how about this... I take their URL input and use base64_encode it.

 

Using method="get", how can I get the address bar to show:

http://www.mysite.com/?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nb29nbGUuY29tLw==

 

... when the user inputs:

http://www.google.com/