PHP urlencode returning unexpected results

Question

I'm attempting to encode the following using urlencode:

 <t:RequestSecurityTokenResponse xmlns:t

which should be encoded as:

 %3Ct%3ARequestSecurityTokenResponse+xmlns%3At

However, the result of urlencode is this:

 %26lt%3Bt%3ARequestSecurityTokenResponse+xmlns%3At

I feel like I'm missing something extremely obvious here, but I haven't been able to figure it out. Any suggestions?

tested this on paiza.io/projects/uIImHXniUZUuy4g3EE5foA and it's work , can u show us your code ? — anehme
– anehme, Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 0:31

Symeon Quimby · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 00:31:51Z

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The front of your encoded string looks like the html entity for <. It appears what you are passing to urlencode has been run through htmlentities.

php > echo urlencode("<t:RequestSecurityTokenResponse xmlns:t");
%3Ct%3ARequestSecurityTokenResponse+xmlns%3At
php > echo urlencode("&lt;t:RequestSecurityTokenResponse xmlns:t");
%26lt%3Bt%3ARequestSecurityTokenResponse+xmlns%3At

answered Jun 17, 2020 at 0:31

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Mike S Over a year ago

That was it...thanks. The string I was converting was from a cURL response, and instead of writing it to a file I was viewing it in a browser with var_dump, making the HTML entities appear as their actual characters. I knew it was something simple. Thank you!

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