Escaping special sequences in HTML
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I am stuck and can't find the answer. In Java, I am forwarding a page and passing a string into the new Forward. The problem is that part of the string is?/b>, and in HTML is keeps resolving the the registration symbol (circle with an R inside)
rtn ="https://www.mypage.com/page.do?accountNumber="+accountNum+"®istrationCode="+registrationCode;
returnnew Forward(rtn);
I've tried using double quotes to escape it, but it still resolves to the registration code symbol
rtn ="https://www.mypage.com/page.do?accountNumber="+accountNum+"\\®istrationCode="+registrationCode;
Any ideas how to escape ?in a string to make it actually resolve to ?in an jsp page?
thanks
Message was edited by:
drakester
Message was edited by:
drakester
[1026 byte] By [
drakestera] at [2007-11-27 1:13:43]
> The
> problem is that part of the string is ?/b>, and
> in HTML is keeps resolving the the registration
> symbol (circle with an R inside)
> I've tried using double quotes to escape it, but it
> still resolves to the registration code symbol
> Any ideas how to escape ?in a string to make it
> actually resolve to ?in an jsp page?
I don't get what you're asking. Do you want the ?to appear in the page or not? You seem to be contradicting yourself.
Well, for characters in a URL (like what you have there), they are supposed to be URL-escaped if they aren't letters or digits or a few other things that I don't quite remember. The URLEncoder class will do that for you.
You won't see the ® character when you do that, you will see a % character followed by some hexadecimal data.
> I don't get what you're asking. Do you want the ?to
> appear in the page or not? You seem to be
> contradicting yourself.
I do not want ® to appear, I want (&.reg) to appear(but without the period). I am trying to pass &.reg as an URL string but the &.registration keeps resolving to ®istration.
> > I don't get what you're asking. Do you want the ?br>> to
> > appear in the page or not? You seem to be
> > contradicting yourself.
>
> I do not want ?to appear, I want (&.reg) to
> appear(but without the period). I am trying to pass
> &.reg as an URL string but the &.registration keeps
> resolving to ®istration.
Gotcha. I was even more confused until I quoted your reply. If the URLEncoder doesn't handle the problem, you could encode the '&' yourself: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
