How do you pass an apostrophe through a URL?

Question

I'm using Node.js:

var s = 'Who\'s that girl?'; var url = 'http://graph.facebook.com/?text=' + encodeURIComponent(s);  request(url, POST, ...) 

This does not work! And Facebook cuts off my text...

Full code:

function postToFacebook(fbid, access_token, data, next){     var uri = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'+String(fbid)+'/feed?access_token='+access_token;     var uri += '&' + querystring.stringify(data);     request({         'method':'POST',         'uri': uri,     },function(err,response,body){         next();     }); };   app.get('/test',function(req,res){     var d = {         'name':'Who\'s that girl?',         'link': 'http://example.com',         'caption': 'some caption...',         'description': 'some description...',         'picture': 'http://i.imgur.com/CmlrM.png',     };     postToFacebook(req.user.fb.id, req.user.fb.accessToken, d);     res.send('done'); }); 

Facebook gets a blank post on the wall. No text shows. Nothing.

When I log my URI, it is this:

https://graph.facebook.com/1290502368/feed?access_token=2067022539347370|d7ae6f314515c918732eab36.1-1230602668|GtOJ-pi3ZBatd41tPvrHb0OIYyk&name=Who's%20that%20girl%3F&link=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&caption=some%20caption...&description=some%20description...&picture=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCmlrM.png 

Obviously if you take a look at that URL, you see that the apostrophe is not being encoded correctly.

Answer 1

Had the same problem, encodeURIComponent didn't encode single quote. The trick is to do the replacement of ' with %27, after the encoding:

var trackArtistTitle = encodeURIComponent("Johnny Vegas - Who's Ready Fo'r Ice Cre'am") // result: Johnny%20Vegas%20-%20Who's%20Ready%20Fo'r%20Ice%20Cre'am trackArtistTitle = trackArtistTitle.replace(/'/g, '%27') // result: Johnny%20Vegas%20-%20Who%27s%20Ready%20Fo%27r%20Ice%20Cre%27am 

This way, trackArtistTitle will be properly decoded on server i.e. with PHP using urldecode().