URL encoding to enocode spaces with plus

Question

I have an application that needs to sign form data before it is sent to server. In the signing method, I have to escape all form input values with javascript, sign them and then send the signed data to server for cross matching. The remote server is escaping form data in a way that it enocodes all spaces with plus.

So if my form data is:

this is test :)

The encoded output should be

this+is+test+%3A)

But I tested javascripts encodeURIComponent, encodeURI and escape. All of them gives me the following output:

this%20is%20test%20%3A)

Any ideas which function is right for this?

did you use urldecode with php ? http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php — Csak Zoli, Aug 06 '14 at 17:27
Are you sure that your server can't handle %20 if it handles %3A for the colon? — Karl-Johan Sjögren, Aug 06 '14 at 17:28
@CsakZoli PHP part is handled by remote api server. All I have to do is using javascript. — Enn Fenn, Aug 06 '14 at 17:31

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '14 at 17:32

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It is quite straightforward to do the replacement yourself:

var encoded = escape(s).replace(/%20/g, "+");
alert(encoded); // outputs "this+is+test+%3A)"

answered Aug 06 '14 at 17:32

laurent

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