Send "@" sign containing data through Ajax

Question

My code is like Below.

$.ajax({               
    url:'http:://www.sample.com/checkmail/'+$('#txtemail').val(),
    success: function(data)
    {
        $('#response').html(data);
        if(data!="Success")                 
        {
            $('#txtemail').css("background-color","#FF8A8D");
        }
        else
        {
            $('#txtemail').css("background-color","white");
        }
    }
});

Above code works when passing data without '@' sign

Example:

//passing Hello
txtemail = "Hello"

//ajax response message in firefox
GET http://www.example.com/checkmail/Hello 200 OK 503ms

But if i pass email like below it gives error

Example: 
//passing hello
txtemail = "hello@eee.com"

//ajax response message in firefox
GET http://www.example.com/checkmail/hello@eee.com 400 Bad Request 26ms

Any Suggestions How to overcome this matter

You have a typo in your URL: `http:://` – Unicron Mar 22 '11 at 07:08 — Unicron, Mar 22 '11 at 07:08

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '11 at 07:09

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Use encodeURIComponent() on the E-Mail address.

url:'http://www.sample.com/checkmail/'+encodeURIComponent($('#txtemail').val()),

@ is a reserved character in a URL (for the username:password@domain scheme) and needs to be percent encoded.

answered Mar 22 '11 at 07:09

Unicron

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Thank You. i replace @ sign with %40 when sending email. again end point i have to replace again (%40 to @). I did it long way. Thank You for the easy method. – Lasantha Mar 24 '11 at 04:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '11 at 07:21

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You will have to encode the url as Unicron said u can also use the escape() function for this....

url:'http://www.sample.com/checkmail/'+escape($('#txtemail').val())

answered Mar 22 '11 at 07:21

Scrappy Cocco

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Don't use `escape()`. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75980/best-practice-escape-or-encodeuri-encodeuricomponent – Tomalak Mar 22 '11 at 07:30

Send "@" sign containing data through Ajax

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