/* There are 11 characters which are not encoded by encodeURI,
but encoded by encodeURIComponent. */
encodeURI("test uri");
// "test%20uri"
encodeURI("test uri");
// "test%20uri"
encodeURI("test uri/with a slash");
// "test%20uri/with%20a%20slash"
encodeURIComponent("test uri/with a slash");
// "test%20uri%2Fwith%20a%20slash"var myUrl = "http://www.image.com/?username=unknown&password=unknown";
var encodedURL= "http://www.foobar.com/foo?imageurl=" + encodeURIComponent(myUrl);
var set1 = ";,/?:@&=+$"; // Reserved Characters
var set2 = "-_.!~*'()"; // Unescaped Characters
var set3 = "#"; // Number Sign
var set4 = "ABC abc 123"; // Alphanumeric Characters + Space
console.log(encodeURI(set1)); // ;,/?:@&=+$
console.log(encodeURI(set2)); // -_.!~*'()
console.log(encodeURI(set3)); // #
console.log(encodeURI(set4)); // ABC%20abc%20123 (the space gets encoded as %20)
console.log(encodeURIComponent(set1)); // %3B%2C%2F%3F%3A%40%26%3D%2B%24
console.log(encodeURIComponent(set2)); // -_.!~*'()
console.log(encodeURIComponent(set3)); // %23
console.log(encodeURIComponent(set4)); // ABC%20abc%20123 (the space gets encoded as %20)
Check out the built-in function encodeURIComponent(str) and encodeURI(str).
In your case, this should work:
var myOtherUrl =
"http://example.com/index.html?url=" + encodeURIComponent(myUrl);