I have to allow "." in the url?

Question

I am doing url masking using codeigniter routing. Here I am allowing the user to enter text that will be the url of his bid data at a specific url.

those. if the user entered "offer1", then his data on offers will be available on

offers.com/offer/offer1

Here I only accept alphabets and numbers as URL text. Should I allow "." in the URL text? What should be the standard method?

+3

shihabudheen 05 Feb 13 at 5:16

3 answers

Venkata krishna · Answer 1 · 2013-02-05T05:24:45+0000

When the user enters the name of the offer, do it like this $offer_name

and encode it withbase64_encode($offer_name);

$encoded_name = base64_encode($offer_name);

Submit this $encoded_name

to url ........... and if you want to use the sentence name decode it again usingbase64_decode($encoded_name);

sbaaaang · Answer 2 · 2013-02-05T10:41:47+0000

if you need "." you can leave this in urls if you then use url parameters to trigger requests, just avoid params before triggering the request.

I usually do 301 redirect

in base_url();

if wrong with url parameters.

only my 2 cents

Naresh Ramoliya · Answer 3 · 2013-09-05T11:56:58+0000

You can resolve "."

to url by adding "."

to $config['permitted_uri_chars']

config variable in config.php

.