The easiest and portable way to do standard URL Encoding in VB6?

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Our company has a VB6 program, and it now needs to be integrated with some internal web applications / web services. In order to interact with those web services, parameters need to be URL-encoded. However, VB6 doesn't provide such as HttpUtility.UrlEncode(), as well as the default charset is Unicode rather than UTF-8. I'm seeking a most easier and portable way to make the VB6 web request to conform to the standard. Please kindly advise.

Thanks! William Choi

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '11 at 07:56

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You might consider UrlEscape in shlwapi.dll.

answered Jan 24 '11 at 07:56

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '11 at 02:10

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I found myself the helpers listed in the following link. They're really helpful and portable. Unicode string to UTF8 bytes in VB6.0

answered Jan 25 '11 at 02:10

William X

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '11 at 02:04

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You may have to write your own encoder.

It's not terribly difficult.

This Wikipedia article can help you get started.

answered Jan 24 '11 at 02:04

tenor

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The easiest and portable way to do standard URL Encoding in VB6?

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