[racket] escaping binary data in url

That's what the Web Server stuffers do

http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/stateless.html#(part._stuffers)

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
> The library already does some URL encoding for you, as "%" is an
> illegal character in a query string, since that's the escape character
> itself for arbitrary bytes,  "%25" gets translated down to...
>
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> (integer->char (string->number "25" 16))
> #\%
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> ... that percent sign.
>
>
> Would using base64-encode (from the net/base64 library) work for you?
> You can take your bytes and feed them through base64-encode; the
> result should be something that can be a part of URLs.
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