Question

I was having trouble sending up a url containing accent characters using IE.
Here’s a simple function:

function runjQueryTest(){
    var url = "/test/Beyoncé/";
    $.get( url, function(){});
}

On the server (PHP) I record the value of the request uri ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) and I see a difference between what FF/Chrome send up versus what IE sends up.

Chrome and FireFox cause the value of ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) to be

/test/Beyonc%C3%A9/

but requests from IE 8 show the value of ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) to be

/test/Beyonc\xe9

This is causing my dispatcher’s regular expression handler to not match correctly on the server.

Any ideas what the root issue here is, and how I can fix it for IE?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think the solution to your problem is to url encode the characters prior to using them in your url. This will give you a common base across all the browsers.