By Nitin on May 8, 2010
I discussed a little about URL encoding in my recent post Facebook: Bug with URL encoding, although it seems like the bug still exists. In this post I will discuss “how to encode a given URL before accessing it using CURL or fsockopen”. The problem with URLs is that they might contain certain disallowed characters [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged encoding, facebook, php, URL
By Nitin on March 2, 2009
Recently, I was working on a project and I needed to convert the relative URLs to their absolute URLs. An absolute URL such as “http://www.example.com/image.jpg” but mostly written as only “image.jpg” (relative URL) on the web pages. Web browser creates a complete URL using this relative URL and base URL. The base URL, must be [...]
Posted in Projects | Tagged Drupal, php, URL