I've always used url_quote_plus for this, which is like url_quote but replaces spaces with '+', which apparently is appropriate for quoting HTML form values. --Brian Hooper On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:37:01 -0500 Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> wrote:

I *think* it's <dtml-var name url_quote>

Guy Davis wrote:

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I have seen the answer to this before, but I can't seem to find it now. (Mailing list search is down.) I am generating a URL for a link as follows:

http://servername/file?name=<dtml-var name>&id=<dtml-var id>

Now if the name is 'Bob' this works fine, but if the name is 'Bob Johnson' the space breaks it. There is a function to encode such a string with the correct hex in place of spaces. What is it? Thanks.

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It automatically *html* quotes. Url-quoting is a swamp. If you have a query string, you can't just quote the whole URL, or even the whole query string, since the '?', '&'s, and '='s will get quoted. 'url_quote' works fine on both the path and query, but 'url_quote_plus' only works on the query bits. I bundle all this nastiness up in a method which is called like this: makeURL(base='', path='/where/am/I?', include_last_query=1, swearing='&#^&*?') to produce: /where/am/I%3f/?bits=from+last+query&swearing=%26%23%5e%26%2a%3f ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Harris <phil.harris@zope.co.uk>

I though the &dtml-var; format automatically url_quoted strings:

Cheers, Evan @ digicool

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Guy Davis wrote:

Thanks everyone. Both url_quote and url_quote_plus seem to work.

http://servername/file?name=&dtml-name;&id=&dtml-id; does not work however as it doesn't properly replace the spaces.

You can do this, instead, and it will work (I just tested it): http://servername/file?name=&dtml.url_quote_plus-name; &id=&dtml.url_quote_plus-id; Hope this helps. --Jeff --- Jeff K. Hoffman 704.849.0731 x108 Chief Technology Officer mailto:jeff@goingv.com Going Virtual, L.L.C. http://www.goingv.com/