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It's not the URL which is giving him a problem. It is inserting ampards into an sql query and executing it.
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Originally posted by zMaestro zMaestro wrote:

oh no :(

the & character gives me error too since it is sent as querystring

how can I replace the & character?


I guess he sends it over the URL before inserting into the database
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Yes but  the error isn't being caused by a & in the URL. Its being caused when he in inserting it into a database. What Datbase are you using? If your using SQL Server consider using Stored Procedures, then you wont have any of these problems.
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With asp you will have those problems with SP's as well because there is no way (to my knowledge) to treat sp's paramters as literals. And Semikolon is right, if you have a & in your querystring it give you problems also as it will truncate the QS at that point.
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Instead of using GET, POST the form and you will not have the querystring problem with ampersands.
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Originally posted by Mart Mart wrote:

Yes but  the error isn't being caused by a & in the URL. Its being caused when he in inserting it into a database. What Datbase are you using? If your using SQL Server consider using Stored Procedures, then you wont have any of these problems.


at least he said it was in the querystring and SQL wont get problems with & as Encoded HTML (which inserts without problems) uses &


If the data comes from a form, use POST instead of GET (as ljamal said), else you may store it in cookies or sessions
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it's not a form :(

here is an example:
http://www.egymalls.com/Catalog.asp?Field=Category&Cat=E lectrical%20Appliances&FieldContent=Item&Sub=006-025 -087

If there is the character & as in (Cat=Home & Acessories)it will be corrupt the url.

I see the space &nbsp; is converted into %20
Is there a value for the character & or ' in the same way???
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Response.Write(use Server.URLEncode("characters")) and you willl get the value working with URLs
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