UrlEncoding-Safe Delimiter
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So the site I'm working on has a filter system that operates by passing a key and value system through a querystring.
The whole site is going through a re-factor soon and I'm maintaining the existing site so before we discuss the RIGHT way to implement this, I just need ideas for changing my delimiter.
The current format is like this:
cf=<key>:<value>
The problem is, I've recently run into an issue because some of our new values for this filter contain :
in them. I.e: cf=MO_AspectRatio:16:10
The value is being UrlEncoded, but the browsers are de-coding %3a into : on the fly because the : doesn't inherently break the urls.
I need some suggestions for url-safe delimiters that aren't :
,-
,_
,&
,?
that makes sense. I'm not looking for a solution like ()
or something wild.
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