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I just need to decode a URL, for example, replace %2E with . I can hack out a method if one isn't build in, but my assumption is that there must be a URL decoding tool already existing.
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It is a usual task in web development, and this is generally done while making a GET request to the API with the query params. The query params must also be encoded in the URL string, where the server will decode this. Many browsers automatically encode and decode the URL and the response string.
PowerShell Code to handle the URL encoding and decoding:HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($urlToEncode) Write-Host "The encoded url is: " $encodedURL -ForegroundColor Green #Encode URL code ends here #The below code is used to decode the URL. $urlTodDecode = $encodedURL $decodedURL = [System. Web.
URL encoding converts characters that are not allowed in a URL into character-entity equivalents; URL decoding reverses the encoding. For example, when embedded in a block of text to be transmitted in a URL the characters < and > are encoded as %3c and %3e.
Here's a snippet I wrote years ago
-markus
Public Function URLDecode(sEncodedURL As String) As String
On Error GoTo Catch
Dim iLoop As Integer
Dim sRtn As String
Dim sTmp As String
If Len(sEncodedURL) > 0 Then
' Loop through each char
For iLoop = 1 To Len(sEncodedURL)
sTmp = Mid(sEncodedURL, iLoop, 1)
sTmp = Replace(sTmp, "+", " ")
' If char is % then get next two chars
' and convert from HEX to decimal
If sTmp = "%" and LEN(sEncodedURL) + 1 > iLoop + 2 Then
sTmp = Mid(sEncodedURL, iLoop + 1, 2)
sTmp = Chr(CDec("&H" & sTmp))
' Increment loop by 2
iLoop = iLoop + 2
End If
sRtn = sRtn & sTmp
Next
URLDecode = sRtn
End If
Finally:
Exit Function
Catch:
URLDecode = ""
Resume Finally
End Function
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