Decode URL

• Version: 1.0
• Author: Chuck Shotton
• Requirements: AppleScript
• Cost: free
• Pros: decodes URLs from their hexadecimal equivalents
• Cons: none
• Remote location: <URL:>
• Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/decode-url.hqx>

As you may or may not know, WWW browsers encode reserved characters in URLs when requesting files from remote services. The happens most frequently when accessing gopher services and delivering the data from GET or POST queries. While your scripts never get the URL in its entirety, there are parts of it you may have to decode. This is what the Decode URL OSAX is for. A good example of its use is within the redirect.acgi. Unfortunately, redirect.acgi has been saved as a read-only script. If you want to undo what the browsers have done to our URL, then Decode URL is an OSAX for you.

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.