encoding in server and decode in javascript using escape

Question

I have to encode string in c# and decode it with javascript unescape function.

the javascript unescape is the only option since I am sending the string with get request to some api that using unescape to decoed it.

i tried almost everything

server.urlencode
WebUtility.HtmlEncode

and a lot other encoding! I even tried Uri.EscapeDataString using jscript

Nothing isn't encode like the "escape" function

Any idea How to make it work?

EDIT:

this is my code

string apiGetRequest = String.Format("http://212.00.00.00/Klita?name={0}&city={1}&CREATEBY=test ", Uri.EscapeDataString(name), Uri.EscapeDataString(city));
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(apiGetRequest);
req.GetResponse();

What does the string represent? That is, is it HTML? A URL? Something else? Why do you need to encode it? Please post some sample strings and how you expect them to be escaped. — Oded
– Oded, Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 9:14
And what seems to be the problem on the JavaScript side? You should be able to access the URL parameters without a problem in JavaScript. — Oded
– Oded, Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 9:29
when I take the encode string and try to unescape it in firebug ,it doesn't seem to change it back to original string — baaroz
– baaroz, Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 9:43

LeJared · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-04 09:35:41Z

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Can you give an example of the string you want do encode and the encoded result?

URLencoding is the correct encoding-type you need. Make sure, you don't double encode your string somewhere in your code.

You might need to use decodeURIComponent instead of unescape, since unescape is not UTF-8 aware, thus might result in in broken string after decoding.

See http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/ for more information.

EDIT:

I don't know much about asp, but it looks like your trying to access the url not with a browser but with your ASP-server-side application. Well, your server does not run any JS code. You will just retrieve the HTML markup and maybe some JS code as a big string. This code would be parsed and executed within a browser but not within ASP.

edited Sep 4, 2012 at 9:35

answered Sep 4, 2012 at 9:26

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2 Comments

baaroz Over a year ago

I know that decodeURIComponent will work,unfortunately I am sending it to some api and it only work with unescape

LeJared Over a year ago

Well, then there is nothing you can do about this. escape is an old legacy function with limited capabilities. Try to contact the provider of the JS-Code and ask him to fix his code.

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