slashes in url variables

url escaping
namtax picture namtax · Jun 7, 2010 · Viewed 173.6k times · Source

I have set up my coldfusion application to have dynamic urls on the page, such as 

www.musicExplained/index.cfm/artist/:VariableName

However my variable names will sometimes contain slashes, such as 

www.musicExplained/index.cfm/artist/GZA/Genius

This is causing a problem, because my application presumes that the slash in the variable name represents a different section of the website, the artists albums. So the URL will fail.

I am wondering if there is anyway to prevent this from happening? Do I need to use a function that replaces slashes in the variable names with another character?

Answer

SLaks picture SLaks · Jun 7, 2010

You need to escape the slashes as %2F.

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