Using “&” and “+” in Querystring

Question

In call the following URL in Javascript.

var par = \"Participant.aspx?ID=\" + Id + \"&NAME=\" + Name+ \"&FIRSTNAME=\" + Firstname;

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Answer 1

Remember that the contents of the query string (both the names and values) must be correctly URI-encoded. If that line is in JavaScript, you'd do that like this:

var par = "Participant.aspx?ID=" + encodeURIComponent(Id) +
            "&NAME=" + encodeURIComponent(Name) +
            "&FIRSTNAME=" + encodeURIComponent(Firstname);

(Technically, again, the names should be encoded too, but "ID", "NAME", and "FIRSTNAME" encode to exactly the same thing, so I didn't use encodeURIComponent on them.)

See AntP's comment re the plus signs and spaces:

"With URLEncode is the problem that if the Querystring contains spaces between the Name and the "plus" sign, the spaces also get converted to "plus" signs." - that is what should happen. A plus sign denotes a space. An encoded plus sign denotes a plus sign.