Online URL Encoder

I have no problem using one or the other... I'm more curious about the history / rationale behind it.

I mean, why use + when all other ASCII characters where addressed with the %HH notation?

I'm guessing there might have been some some legacy reason behind it which would be neat to know. Lord knows I've written enough stuff shortsightedly that still has some reverse compatible functionality in production years later. If I had to guess, I'd say it was probably an early mechanism to support spaces in file/folder names and then the %HH took over, while leaving + supported. However, I'm usually wrong.

I'm unsure of the terminology for all of this so please bare with me

I have just created an HTML or URL link for multiple URLs, however, it is not compatible with mobile phones. Is there any coding that I can put into the HTML to make it compatible?THanks

I'm trying to get the format of Date/Time from the URL with the $_GET and put it into a input field:

This is the format: 09/11/2019 14:48 CDT 09/11/2019 14:48 CDT

$stime = "09/11/2019 14:48 CDT 09/11/2019 14:48 CDT";$etime = "";

This is part of the code when the form is submitted:

includes/connect.inc.php

    if (empty($stime) || empty($etime)) {            header("Location: ../home.php?error=emptyfields&stime=".rawurlencode($stime)."");            exit();}

This is the code where the form/input fields are:

home.php

if (isset($_GET['error'])) {    $stime = ($_GET['stime']);}else {    $stime = "";}<form method="post" action="includes/connect.inc.php" enctype="multipart/form-data"><li>Start Time : <input type="text" name="stime" id="dato8" value=<?php echo rawurldecode($stime); ?> ></li><input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button"></form>

All works fine but the string that returns to the input field is just: "09/11/2019", missing the rest of the original string.

Any idea of what am i doing wrong?

I did a test in a separate file with this code:

<?php$dateDecoded = "09%2F11%2F2019%2014%3A48%20CDT%2009%2F11%2F2019%2014%3A48%20CDT";$dateToEncode = "09/11/2019 14:48 CDT 09/11/2019 14:48 CDT";echo rawurldecode($dateDecoded);echo "<br>";echo rawurlencode(dateToEncode); ?>

And works perfect, does the result i'm looking for, this is the output of the above test:

09/11/2019 14:48 CDT 09/11/2019 14:48 CDT09%2F11%2F2019%2014%3A48%20CDT%2009%2F11%2F2019%2014%3A48%20CDT

Thanks in advance.

Diego

Unfortunately after some searching I've yet to find a straightforward answer to this question. My web server is encoding slashes in the $_GET query of the URL.

I.E. http://sitename.com/path?page=0%2C1, whereas the link should be http://sitename.com/path?page=0/1

I know this is nitpicky, but I need some custom logic to display certain values on the argument in the query string, and this encoding is causing problems.

To make matters more complicated, I'm on a cPanel server that I can't migrate from since there's other shared accounts on the box. I do have root access, however. I'm running Drupal 7, Php 7.1

What I'm looking to do is either add a directive to the .htaccess, or some other account-specific global, to not encode slashes as %2C, and just display the /.

Is there a straightforward way to do this? Further, if the directive MUST be global on the server (i.e. the httpd.conf), do I simply set AallowEncodedSlashes to off?

Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to parse a string passed from one page to another in PHP ($_GET), this string has an "&" in it like this:

Help & Support

The name is url encoded, so the & turns into %26.

<a href="http://test.com/category/Help+%26+Support">Help &amp; Support</a>

My problem is when a user clicks a link, the next page picks up the string as "Help " and seems to just stop where the %26 is?

I know I'm not supposed to decode it, since $_GET is done automatically.

What am I missing to get the whole string?