Slashes in GET request (to be used with PHP back end)

Question

I have to send a GET request to my Apache server. Whenever the parameters have values that are just one words, things work smoothly. Whenever, there are spaces, I am changing them to %20 and it does the trick

However, whenever I have slashes in my parameter values, things do not work. For example, the URL I want to send to my server is:

https://randomness.com?path=/var/images/sub%20images/&name=image%2001.jpg

How can I get a workaround regarding this?

Answer 1

Many characters are specifically interpreted by the web host in URLs and the / character is one of them.

You can translate your / characters to %2F, like you translate to %20.

PHP's urlencode function can also handle these translations for you automatically.

A handy reference for these encodings can be found here, should you wish to handle it manually.