encoding url in web.config

Question

I have a url that I would like to put into my web.config file.

http://google.com?parcel&bob&&smith

I imagine that the .net run time is upset with the ampersand's so i encoded them to be &amp.

http://google.com?parcel&ampbob&amp&ampsmith

This also doesn't work. Any ideas would be great, if you could supply a link to the documentation of why this is that would be even better. Thank you very much!!!

Answer 1

did you try this? (semicolons)

http://google.com?parcel&bob&smith

Answer 2

The proper encoding for the ampersand is & You are missing the ; at the end.