Q1743 When placing the value of a JavaScript variable into a URL request, how do I correctly format the variable value, so that spaces etc are converted into the standard html request syntax?

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Use the escape() method, for example:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
var data = 'Hello world';

var url = 'http://somewhere.com/index.htm?name=' + escape(data);

location.href = url;
//--></script>

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• Tuesday May 08, 2007 at 05:07:17 Sathya

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