url - Query strings with special characters

Question

How I can pass a query string with special characters?

For example I need to pass "&" inside my query string as below:

../solrresults.asp?mode=search&data=M & S

Answer 1

Use Server.UrlEncode:

URLEncode converts characters as follows: Spaces ( ) are converted to plus signs (+). Non-alphanumeric characters are escaped to their hexadecimal representation.

Use it this way;

<a href="page2.asp?name=<%= Server.URLEncode(sName) %>">here</a>