Compressing a string with URL safe characters

**Jerry Stuckle** · Sep 19 '06, 11:15 AM

Re: Compressing a string with URL safe characters

Gerry Vandermaesen wrote:

Hi all,
>
What would be the best way to encode and optimally also compress a long
string with URL unsafe characters to be passed as a GET parameter?
>
Example string:
>
/search.ds?&what =hotel&where=an twerpen&when=&s tartingPageNumb er=1&stageName= What%20search&o riginalOffset=1 &expandWWWSearc h=false&myplace s=false&activeR efinements=loca lity4..%3D..Ant werpen..%26..An twerpen&distanc e=0&searchType= www&activeSort=-beyprandom1%20-beboost%20-boost3&phoneNum berSearch=false &debug=&exclude Zone=false&alph aRefineable=AY5 2%7CBN18%7CCN30 %7CDN53%7CEN10% 7CFN16%7CGN10%7 CHN56%7CIN9%7CJ N3%7CKN10%7CLN8 %7CMN23%7CNN7%7 CON7%7CPN13%7CQ N1%7CRN10%7CSN1 9%7CTN29%7CUN0% 7CVN26%7CWN5%7C XN0%7CYN0%7CZN1 %7C%5B0-9%5DN0&headingN umber=&adtype=x ml.click&partne rId=&mfinfo.par tner_id=&encode dRefinement=hea ding..%3D..%5EK offiezetmachine s%24..%26..Koff iezetmachines
>
(yes I know the example is an URL itself, but I need the entire string
to be passed as a GET parameter)
>

Uh... maybe urlencode()?

Also, don't know what you mean by "compress". Compressing something
typically gives non-alphanumeric chars. Then making those URL-safe
would require replacing them with 3-4 chars such as %148. Somewhat a
losing proposition.

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Compressing a string with URL safe characters

Compressing a string with URL safe characters

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