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Asked: 2026-05-17T17:52:54+00:00

i’m trying to encode an url with the code below; var encodedUrl = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(http://www.example.com);

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i’m trying to encode an url with the code below;

var encodedUrl = HttpUtility.UrlEncode("http://www.example.com");
var decodedUrl = HttpUtility.UrlDecode("http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eexample%2Ecom%2F");

I’m working with the google webmaster tools api and this api expects an URL as shown in the decodedUrl variable above. Every single character is encoded there.

When i use the httputility encode function i get the following result;

http%3a%2f%2fwww.example.com

How can i use the encoding variable in such a way that every character in the url is encoded?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m pretty sure that HtmlUtility and AntiXss (another MS tool for encoding urls) aren’t going to help here. A “.” in a url is considered valid and so doesn’t need to be encoded.

    I think you’re going to have to post-process your encoded string to further encode other characters that are not valid within teh google webmaster tools API.

    i.e. do something like this…

    var encodedUrl = HttpUtility.UrlEncode("http://www.example.com")
                            .Replace(".", "%2E");

    … assuming that “.” is the only character you’re having problems with.

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