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URL-escape a var with JSTL
Hello,
I need to URL-escape a variable in JSTL, and am not having much luck finding the way to do it.
For example, I currently do:
<c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}"/>
Since "foo" param may include some funky characters, I need to URL-escape that. So I'm looking for something similar to:
<c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}" escapeXml="true"/>
What's the right way to URL-encode a variable with JSTL, without resorting to scriptlets?
Or is the only option to use escapeXml="true" when doing c:out?
Thanks,
Otis
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Re: URL-escape a var with JSTL
Posted by Eric Haszlakiewicz <er...@swapsimple.com>.
> ogjunk-taglib@yahoo.com wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I need to URL-escape a variable in JSTL, and am not having much luck
> >finding the way to do it.
> >
> >For example, I currently do:
> ><c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}"/>
> >
> >Since "foo" param may include some funky characters, I need to URL-escape
> >that. So I'm looking for something similar to:
> >
> ><c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}" escapeXml="true"/>
<c:set var="foo"><c:out value="${param.foo}"></c:set>
or
<c:set var="foo" value="${fn:escapeXml(param.foo)}"/>
However, that's encoded with HTML/XML character entities, NOT url encoding.
i.e.
input value | c:out | url encoding
"foo bar" "foo bar" "foo+bar"
"A&B" | "A&B" | "A%26B"
> >What's the right way to URL-encode a variable with JSTL, without resorting
> >to scriptlets?
Note that URLEncoder.encode() is a static method, so if you really
do mean "url encode" you could write a short tld to allow you to access
it as an EL function. Or, you could use the jakarta String TagLib, which
has a encodeUrl tag:
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/string-1.1.0/index.html#encodeUrl
eric
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Re: URL-escape a var with JSTL
Posted by og...@yahoo.com.
Hi,
True, but I'm not using to construct my URLs, because my URLs are rewritten (mod_rewrite) and don't look like they are in the webapp context. For example, if I have myapp.war, and URLs are normally under http://example.com/myapp/.... , then yes, c:url would work. However, my links are rewritten, so I have http://example.com/people, etc....
So I construct URLs like this:
<a href="/something/${foo}">foo</a>
Thanks,
Otis
----- Original Message ----
From: Rich <rw...@xsmail.com>
To: Tag Libraries Users List <ta...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 6:27:26 AM
Subject: Re: URL-escape a var with JSTL
I think you just need the <c:url> tag.
-R
ogjunk-taglib@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to URL-escape a variable in JSTL, and am not having much luck finding the way to do it.
>
> For example, I currently do:
> <c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}"/>
>
> Since "foo" param may include some funky characters, I need to URL-escape that. So I'm looking for something similar to:
>
> <c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}" escapeXml="true"/>
>
> What's the right way to URL-encode a variable with JSTL, without resorting to scriptlets?
> Or is the only option to use escapeXml="true" when doing c:out?
>
> Thanks,
> Otis
>
>
>
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Re: URL-escape a var with JSTL
Posted by Rich <rw...@xsmail.com>.
I think you just need the <c:url> tag.
-R
ogjunk-taglib@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to URL-escape a variable in JSTL, and am not having much luck finding the way to do it.
>
> For example, I currently do:
> <c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}"/>
>
> Since "foo" param may include some funky characters, I need to URL-escape that. So I'm looking for something similar to:
>
> <c:set var="foo" param="${param.foo}" escapeXml="true"/>
>
> What's the right way to URL-encode a variable with JSTL, without resorting to scriptlets?
> Or is the only option to use escapeXml="true" when doing c:out?
>
> Thanks,
> Otis
>
>
>
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