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HttpUtility Class

Provides methods for encoding and decoding URLs when processing Web requests. This class cannot be inherited.

Namespace:  System.Web
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

public ref class HttpUtility sealed

The HttpUtility class is used internally by the HttpServerUtility class, whose methods and properties are exposed through the intrinsic ASP.NET Server object. Additionally, the HttpUtility class contains encoding and decoding utility methods that are not accessible from the Server.

The following code example demonstrates the use of the UrlEncode, UrlDecode, and ParseQueryString methods of the HttpUtility class.

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System::Object
  System.Web::HttpUtility

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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