url_encode proc

Format

url_encode(PlainText, format=0)

Args

• PlainText: text to be URL “escaped”
• format: 0 to treat PlainText as a query string, 1 to treat it as a full URL

Returns

escaped text

Special characters such as spaces are not used literally in URLs. If you want to ensure that an entire text string is sent literally, you can “escape” those characters. For example, a double quote (ASCII 34) is produced by the code %22, where 22 is hexadecimal for 34.

The url_encode() instruction does this for you automatically. Using format=1 will treat the URL as already encoded and only re-encode characters that don’t belong in the result. Otherwise PlainText is treated as part of a query string; in this case spaces are converted to + instead of %20, and most characters are escaped.

mob/verb/Private(M as mob in players, T as text)
   if(!client || !M || !M.client || !T) return
   usr << "\[To <a href='?msg=[url_encode(M.key)]'>[M.name]</a>\] [T]"
   M << "\[From <a href='?msg=[url_encode(key)]'>[name]</a>\] [T]"

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