llEscapeURL

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Summary

Function: string llEscapeURL( string url );
0.0 Forced Delay
10.0 Energy

Returns a string that is the escaped/encoded version of url, replacing spaces with %20 etc. The function will escape any character not in [a-zA-Z0-9] to %xx where xx is the hexadecimal value of the byte. To clarify, numbers and ASCII letters are NOT escaped.

• string url

Caveats

  • The function is not appropriate for escaping a URL all at once because the ': ' after the protocol and all of the '/' characters delimiting the various parts will be escaped. Instead, build the URL in parts, escaping parts of the path and query string arguments as needed.
  • See: String:Caveats

Examples

See Also

Functions

• llUnescapeURL

Articles

• UTF-8
• Base64

Deep Notes

Signature

function string llEscapeURL( string url );