Encodes special characters in strings for use with HTTP.
HTML_ENCODE ( string )
string Arbitrary string to be used in an HTTP request.
This function returns the string argument after making the following set of substitutions. In addition, all characters with hexadecimal codes less than 1F or greater than 7E are replaced with %nn, where nn is the character code.
Character |
Substitution |
---|---|
space |
%20 |
" |
%22 |
# |
%23 |
& |
%26 |
, |
%2C |
; |
%3B |
< |
%3C |
> |
%3E |
[ |
%5B |
\ |
%5C |
] |
%5D |
` |
%60 |
{ |
%7B |
| |
%7C |
} |
%7D |