Questions tagged [urldecode]

urldecode reverses replacements by urlencode(), which is used to prepare a string for use in a URL by replacing invalid characters such as /, +, ', % etc.

urlencode prepare a string for use in a URL, and urldecode does the reverse operation.

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How to URLENCODE url with variables?

I need to URLENCODE this:
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Why URL is not decoded completely?

I am writing a java program where my url need to be decoded and I am using URLDecoder.decode(url,"UTF-8") method to achieve it.But, unfortunately it is not decoding completely. For eg. above method decodes %3d to = , %2B to + but it is not…
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Re-encode url from utf-8 encoded to iso-8859-1 encoded

I have file:// links with non-english characters which are UrlEncoded in UTF-8. For these links to work in a browser I have to re-encode them. file://development/H%C3%A5ndplukket.doc becomes file://development/H%e5ndplukket.doc I have the…
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URLdecode with characters encoded by more than one %

This should be an easy one. Let's suppose I have this string in R: a <- "%C3%B6sterlich What this means is: österlich (which means 'easterly' in German) However, if I do URLdecode(a), I get: [1] "österlich" This makes sense in a way, because %C3 is…
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Request.Querystring removes characters from encrypted text

In my application I take a user's e-mail address, encrypt it, and URLEncode it, and pass it along into a QueryString. email = Server.UrlEncode(aes.Encrypt(email)); The landing page does a Request.Querystring["email"], UrlDecodes it, and then…
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URL decoding inside AWK

One of the columns in my file is url encoded, I have to decode that column and need to perform some operations based on values inside the column. Is there any way I can decode that column in awk?
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decode URL only non-ascii character

Now I'm working on Wikipedia. In many articles, I noticed some URLs, for example, https://www.google.com/search?q=%26%E0%B8%89%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99, are very long. The example URL can be replaced with "https://www.google.com/search?q=%26ฉัน" (ฉัน is a…
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Check for the existence of a file: URL that uses URLEncoding in Tcl 8.5.9

What is the simplest way to check for the existence of a file specified by a file: URL that uses URLEncoding in Tcl 8.5.9? ::http::geturl says it doesn't support file URLs. file exists requires URLDecoding. There doesn't seem to be a builtin proc…
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In sending HTTPS request using Javax webtarget client, how to avoid encoding of query params that contain ":["?

I am using WebTarget to send a GET request with query params. This is my expected request that I need to…
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What is the point of rawurldecode() and urldecode() when the browser apparently does it automatically?

I can't tell you how many hours of my life I've wasted on these kinds of idiotic errors. I'm basically constructing a URL such as: https://example.com/?test=' . urlencode('meow+foo@gmail.com'); Then, I display it from the URL, like this: echo…
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Which is the best way to decode URL in java?

I use URLDecode/URLEncoder class like this: String decodeStr = URLDecoder.decode(str, "UTF-8"); but my security tools says Avoid dangerous J2EE API, and use Encoder.encodeForURL()/decodeForURL() instead of URLDecoder.decode() So please anyone can…
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Which encoding?

does anybody know in which way the string 'Krummh%C3%B6rn' is encoded? Plain text is "Krummhörn". I need to decode strings like this one in Python and tried urllib.unquote('Krummh%C3%B6rn') The result: 'Krummh\xc3\xb6rn'
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Url Encode issue in coldfusion

I am working on a project that I need to pass a string as a url variable. The issue I am haveing is when the strings are being pulled from a database, and contain characters that have to be encoded. When decoding on the other side they drop off…
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Is there a bug in System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode?

Consider the following line of code: string _decoded = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode( "There%20should%20be%20text%20after%20this%0022help!"); The encoded line "There%20should%20be%20text%20after%20this%0022help!" when decoded via the…
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Why are my query string parameters being url decoded twice?

I have a web api that uses .Net 4.7.1 and I noticed some strange behavior when performing a get on one of the endpoints. When I perform a get to the endpoint http://localhost:52684/api/v1/some-resource?client_timezone=%2B0500 the parameter client…
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