Url Decoder and Encoder app
As I have said before necessity is the mother of all invention. In this case I needed to be able to quickly decode long url strings. I tried a few of the browser based tools but you still end up looking at a long url string, it just looks a little nicer with all the html encoding removed. What I really needed was a list of all the name/value pairs.
Cue mother of invention and Adobe AIR. I whipped up a simple little app that takes a url query string and decodes it into a nice list of names and values, much easier to read. You can either paste a query string into the text area or drag and drop one from the browser or anywhere else.
So now something like this
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=10000+Yonge+St,+Richmond+Hill,+York+Regional+Municipality,+Ontario,+Canada&daddr=1+Yonge+Street+Toronto+Ontario&hl=en&geocode=FSBsnQIdR-JD-w%3B&mra=ls&dirflg=ht&sll=43.762168,-79.381027&sspn=0.367466,0.574036&ie=UTF8&ll=43.756713,-79.405746&spn=0.367499,0.574036&z=11
Becomes a little more readable
You can download the AIR app here, enjoy.
Oct 20, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Nice. Will this also decode url escape code characters?
Oct 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM
It does now. Good idea.
Oct 21, 2009 at 1:45 AM
It's possible get a source code?
Oct 29, 2009 at 1:34 AM
What about using isapi for rewriting the urls?
Oct 29, 2009 at 5:20 AM
isapi is for server side rewriting or urls. This app is to decode/encode them on the client side when you are trying to determine the variables and values that are being sent to the server.