Url encoding quotes and spaces

Question

I have some query text that is being encoded with JavaScript, but I\'ve encountered a use case where I might have to encode the same text on the server side, and the encodin

Answer 1

UrlPathEncode doesn't escape " because they don't need to be escaped in path components.

Uri.EscapeDataString should do what you want.

Answer 2

WebUtility.UrlEncode(str)

Will encode all characters that need encoded using the %XX format, including space.

Answer 3

There are a few options available to you, the fastest might be to use UrlEncode then do a string.replace to swap the + characters with %20.

Something like

HttpUtility.UrlEncode(input).Replace("+", "%20");