how to send a url using Javascript ajax? [duplicate]

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I am trying to send a url using the following code to a php code, but as the url include &a=12&b=4 once I get the value of the "a" variable in my php code the last part of address is removed.

url = http://www.example.com/help.jpg?x=10&a=12&b=4 but the url that I get in my php file is http://www.example.com/help.jpg?x=10 (&a=12&b=4 is removed, I know the reason is that javascript,ajax mix it up with the url address and do not know its just a value but do not know how to solve it)

         function upload(url){

            if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
            {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
                xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
            }
            else
            {// code for IE6, IE5
                xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
            xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
            {
                if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
                {
                    document.getElementById("output").innerHTML= xmlhttp.responseText;
                }
            }
            xmlhttp.open("GET","Photos.php?a="+url,true);
            xmlhttp.send();
     }        


   if(isset($_GET["a"]))
   {
       $Address = $_GET["a"];
       echo $Address;

   }

output is >>> " http://www.example.com/help.jpg?x=10" but it should be http://www.example.com/help.jpg?x=10&a=12&b=4

Answer 1

You need to encode the parameter

xmlhttp.open("GET","Photos.php?a="+encodeURIComponent(url),true);

Answer 2

You need to encode the URL. You can use encodeURIComponent(str) and encodeURI(str) like:

var eurl = encodeURIComponent("http://www.example.com/help.jpg?x=10&a=12&b=4");
xmlhttp.open("GET","Photos.php?a=" + eurl, true);