Equivalent to Javascript's encodeURI?

c# .net urlencode encodeuricomponent
Todd Menier picture Todd Menier · Feb 10, 2014 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

C#'s equivalent to encodeURIComponent is well-covered on SO and elsewhere, but what about encodeURI? Basically I want to encode invalid URL characters only and not reserved characters such as /, :, etc. So 

"http://www.example.com/my cool page"

would be encoded to

"http://www.example.com/my%20cool%20page"

Is there something baked into .NET to do this? Or is a regex my best bet?

Answer

JaredPar picture JaredPar · Feb 10, 2014

Try

Uri.EscapeUriString("http://www.mysite.com/my cool page")

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