Hello,

I am not sure what you mean by shortening the GET string. If you have alot of data, a POST may be better suited.

This is what I usually do when I need to encode a hash of data to use in a GET request though.

sub _url_encode_data 
{   
    my ( $data ) = @_;   
    
    my $post_string;
    
    foreach my $field ( keys %$data ) 
    {
        next if ( $data->{$field} eq '' );
    
        $data->{$field} =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_\-.])/uc sprintf("%%%02x",or
+d($1))/eg;
    
        $post_string .= "$field=$data->{$field}&";
    }
    
    return $post_string;
    
} # END _url_encode_data

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There may be a better way to do this(of course).

Hope that helps though.

Wonko

In reply to Re: How do I shorten/encode huge GET strings? by Wonko the sane
in thread How do I shorten/encode huge GET strings? by kleinbiker7

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