Question

I pass a vb.net query string to a page with, depending on the parameter, a spanish character on it, wich works perfectly on the development and testing servers, but not in production.

So, inside the query string I encode the name like this:

Server.UrlEncode(name)

And even before it gets to load, the server throws a “500 Internal Server Error”
with this url:

http://website/Dir/Page.aspx?num=CEJMEJINMFCEGICCEH&name=Jose+Bonse%c3%b1or+Del+Rosario

when I replace the %c3%b1 for any other normal letter, it works (%c3%b1 is an “ñ”)

Again, its works just fine on the other servers, except on production, I dont even know where to start looking..

Answer 1

The HttpServerUtility class (which “Server” is an instance of in the Page base class) uses ASCII by default to decode and encode URL parameters. ASCII, of course, is not vast enough to handle other localizations. To force Unicode, try using UrlEncodeUnicode function of the HttpUtility class instead…

HttpUtility.UrlEncodeUnicode(name)