Re: Please help regarding passing special characters

Replace & with %26 where 26 is ascii value of &.
Else Use doPost. shud solve the problm.

Vj


  u cud use URLEncoder.encode(String, string)
  and for decoding back URLDecoder.decode(String, String)..
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    Hi 

    in one of my forms i am sending '&' something as in ' joe & Sam'

    but when i do the getParameter for the above i get only till joe 
    the rest gets truncated.
    I will be thankful Any to help in this direction 



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