How do I prevent Flash's URLRequest from escaping the url?

Question

I load some XML from a servlet from my Flex application like this:

_loader = new URLLoader();
_loader.load(new URLRequest(_servletURL+"?do=load&id="+_id));

As you can imagine _servletURL is something like http://foo.bar/path/to/servlet

In some cases, this URL contains accented characters (long story). I pass the unescaped string to URLRequest, but it seems that flash escapes it and calls the escaped URL, which is invalid. Ideas?

Answer 1

My friend Luis figured it out:

You should use encodeURI does the UTF8URL encoding http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/package.html#encodeURI()

but not unescape because it unescapes to ASCII see http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/package.html#unescape()

I think that is where we are getting a %E9 in the URL instead of the expected %C3%A9.

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp