How to achieve URL encoding in iphone?

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I am developing an application in which I need to encode URL. I tried using http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/2009/4/22/how_to_really_url_encode/ and [NSString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]] but its not working out for me. Is there any alternate URL encoder class for iphone like java? How to achieve it?? Thanks in advance...

try NSUTF8StringEncoding if it works. But if you want encoding for removing space in URL than the method you are using is fine — Javal Nanda, Dec 07 '10 at 08:29
@Javal Nanda I tried NSUTF8StringEncoding also it does not work.It dont encode certain special characters(like ";:) — roger, Dec 07 '10 at 08:57
@BoltClock thats what I wrote above.. NSUTF8StringEncoding dont encode some special characters(All the special characters needs to be encoded in my app).So whats the alternate way to match java's URL encoder class? — roger, Dec 07 '10 at 09:48

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 29 '12 at 11:10

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Try the following for URL encoding :

NSString *url= [(NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)originalpath, NULL, CFSTR(";:"), kCFStringEncodingUTF8) autorelease];

edited Sep 29 '12 at 11:10

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 26 '13 at 10:08

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You can try the following for URL encoding:

`NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://www.abc.com/parsexml.aspx?query=%@", [searchBar.text stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];`

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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You can refer to this post to find your solution.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Jan 01 '11 at 16:49

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How to achieve URL encoding in iphone?

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