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Encoding a URL

Because a browser can misinterpret spaces and special characters in a URL (as when, for example, a query string is passed), you should use the Server.URLEncode statement to encode a URL being passed from one page to another:

<HTML>

<BODY>

Dim FavoriteURL

FavoriteURL=Request.Form("txtFavURL")

Click the link below to visit your favorite URL:<BR>

</BODY>

</HTML>

In the code above, a user's entry for a favorite URL is requested from a from on another page and displayed as a hyperlink on the current page. While the text for the hyperlink appears as the user entered it, the actual hyperlink is encoded to be interpreted correctly by the browser.

Mapping Server File Paths

You use the Server.MapPath statement to return the physical path for a file on the server. To return the path of the server's root directory, include a slash (/) or a backslash (\):

<HTML>

<BODY>

<%Response.Write(Server.MapPath("/"))%><BR>

<%Response.Write(Server.MapPath("SendData.asp"))%>

</BODY>

</HTML>

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