Ruby URI Percent Encoding

Written by Ben on March 30, 2007 |

CGI.escape and URI.escape are both available in the standard Ruby libraries for URL encoding. But which one should you use?

Here’s a quick note about the differences:

irb(main):001:0> require ‘cgi’
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require ‘uri’
=> true
irb(main):003:0> URI.escape(’Test Hi<>?/&;=:’)
=> “Test%20Hi%3C%3E?/&;=:”
irb(main):004:0> URI.escape(’Test Hi<>?/&;=:’, ‘&’)
=> “Test Hi<>?/%26;=:”
irb(main):005:0> CGI.escape(’Test Hi<>?/&;=:’)
=> “Test+Hi%3C%3E%3F%2F%26%3B%3D%3A”

Note that URI.escape fails to encode the ampersand… So definitely use CGI.escape if you want to safely encode a query parameter for net/http calls.

Close Bookmark and Share This Page

Save to Browser Favorites / Bookmarks

Ask backflip blinklist BlogBookmark Bloglines BlogMarks Blogsvine BuddyMarks BUMPzee! CiteULike co.mments Connotea del.icio.us

Digg diigo DotNetKicks DropJack dzone Facebook Fark Faves Feed Me Links Friendsite folkd.com Furl Google

Hugg Jamespot Jeqq Kaboodle kirtsy linkaGoGo LinksMarker Ma.gnolia Mister Wong Mixx MySpace MyWeb Netvouz

Newsvine oneview OnlyWire PlugIM Propeller Reddit Rojo Segnalo Shoutwire Simpy Slashdot Sphere Sphinn

Spurl Squidoo StumbleUpon Technorati ThisNext Twitter Webride Windows Live Yahoo!

Email This to a Friend

Copy HTML: 

 If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed.

Powered by Bookmarkify™

More »

Posted in Ruby