Problem sending '#' via ajax

[The Reverend]

I'm new to ajax, so I maybe making a simple mistake. But whenever I send a string from a form that contains a #, that and everything after it never makes it into the database.

Can anyone tell me how to get around this?

[glenngv]

You should escape() the querystring you pass to the URL.

[djmonkey1]

This helped me a lot- I was having a problem with linebreaks.

I've noticed that even with escape() the + symbol gets lost (everything else stays the same, but + symbols become spaces). Are there any other symbols that won't work even with escape(), and how can we keep those as well?

[glenngv]

Use encodeURIComponent instead. Actually, there are 3 different methods of encoding the URL: escape, encodeURI and encodeURIComponent. See the difference here.

[djmonkey1]

Thanks for that tip.

In the description of encodeURIComponent() the article states

the encodeURIComponent method encodes all characters

however near the bottom it states

encodeURIComponent() will not encode: ~!*()'

What's up with that?

[liorean]

Originally Posted by djmonkey1

Thanks for that tip.

In the description of encodeURIComponent() the article states

however near the bottom it states

What's up with that?

It means that it encodes all characters that are special in any way in a URI. However, the characters "~", "!", "*", "(", ")" and "'" have no special meaning in URI and don't need to be encoded.