is it a good way to use spaces in url?

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I am developing a movies website. The data of the movie is retrieved from the database on the base of movie name. When Some user click on the movie name link a url of like this "php?moviename=Live Free Die Hard" is generated and the full information related to that movie is shown. My question is that I am using spaces between the name of the movie which is compulsory if I want to get the movie details on the basis of movie name, But is it a good and secure way? if not, what else way should i use?

Posted 10-Apr-11 20:09pm

rashidfarooq

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Ankur^\m/ 11-Apr-11 2:39am

I don't think there will be any issue. But in such cases you should HtmlEncode the URL.

rashidfarooq 11-Apr-11 4:09am

thanks for answering.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-10T20:43:00

Solution 1

Look at this URL:

http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Live+Free+Die+Hard%22[^].

This is the way to escape the blank spaces. In this example it passes the search string to— just click it and you will see. I don't see any problem here. Yes, this is a secure way.

—SA

Posted 10-Apr-11 20:43pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 10-Apr-11 20:44pm

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rashidfarooq 11-Apr-11 4:09am

thanks for answering.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Apr-11 4:17am

You're welcome.
Thanks for accepting the Answer.
Good luck.
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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-10T20:46:00

Solution 2

Normally, spaces in a URL are a Bad Thing: you should do HTML encoding and decoding before you construct the URL completely. Look at what Google and so forth do: an ampersand is translated to "%26", a hash to "%23" and so forth. There are a range of characters your user could type or which could appear in a movie name which could potentially mess things up. Better to encode them and prevent problems.

Posted 10-Apr-11 20:46pm

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rashidfarooq 11-Apr-11 4:09am

thanks for answering

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Apr-11 4:16am

Sure, a 5.
--SA