JSON encode URLs in C# like what PHP does

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When I use json_encode function in PHP to encode an Object in json format, it will change urls in output to an string with escape characters like http:\/\/example.com\/apps\/images\/image01.jpg however C# return a url as is i.e. http://example.com/apps/images/image01.jpg and will not add any escape characters. Since I'm going to implement a web-service just same as my old PHP web service, I want to know how can I encode a url string in C# to be the same as PHP string.

Possible duplicate of [Encode object to JSON](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2287399/encode-object-to-json) — miken32, Feb 18 '17 at 19:45

Roman · Answer 1 · 2017-02-18T20:36:23.550

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You don't need to do anything. If you write your string i.e. to file (or console) from PHP and from C# you will get the same results without changing anything.

If you really want to replace / by \/ use String.Replace() method:

string likePhp = strCSharp.Replace("/", @"\/");

edited Feb 18 '17 at 20:36

answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:46

Roman

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AbraCadaver · Answer 2 · 2017-02-18T22:48:53.413

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You shouldn't need escaped slashes, so tell PHP not to escape them with JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES. Why try and hack the C# JSON to escape the slashes when it's not needed.:

echo json_encode('http://example.com/apps/images/image01.jpg', JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);

Yields:

http://example.com/apps/images/image01.jpg

edited Feb 18 '17 at 22:48

answered Feb 18 '17 at 20:02

AbraCadaver

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@DavidL: Yes I did. The echo is an example obviouslyshowing that you don't need the escapes. Now the PHP and C# JSON are encoded the same. Why escape in PHP and hack in some escapes in C# when you don't need to escape in PHP. – AbraCadaver Feb 18 '17 at 22:41

JSON encode URLs in C# like what PHP does

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