Decodes an HTML string received in a URL and sends the resulting output to a System.IO.TextWriter output stream.
- s
- The HTML string to decode.
- output
- The System.IO.TextWriter output stream that contains the decoded string.
URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmit text in URL strings. Characters such as a question mark (?), ampersand (&), slash mark (/), and spaces might be truncated or corrupted by some browsers. As a result, these characters must be encoded in <a> tags or in query strings where the strings can be re-sent by a browser in a request string.
erload:System.Web.HttpServerUtility.UrlDecode is a convenient way to access the erload:System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode method at run time from an ASP.NET application. Internally, erload:System.Web.HttpServerUtility.UrlDecode uses erload:System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode to decode strings.
To encode or decode values outside of a web application, use the System.Net.WebUtility class.