slashes in url variables

Question

I have set up my coldfusion application to have dynamic urls on the page  such as   www musicExplained index cfm artist  VariableName   However my variable names will sometimes contain slashes  such as   www musicExplained index cfm artist GZA Genius   This is causing a problem  because my application presumes that the slash in the variable name represents a different section of the website  the artists albums  So the URL will fail   I am wondering if there is anyway to prevent this from happening  Do I need to use a function that replaces slashes in the variable names with another character

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Check out this w3schools page about  HTML URL Encoding Reference   https   www w3schools com tags ref urlencode asp  for   you would escape with  2F

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You need to escape the slashes as  2F

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You need to escape those but don t just replace it by  2F manually  You can use URLEncoder for this   Eg URLEncoder encode url   UTF-8    Then you can say   yourUrl    www musicExplained index cfm artist     URLEncoder encode VariableName   UTF-8

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You could easily replace the forward slashes   with something like an underscore   such as Wikipedia uses for spaces   Replacing special characters with underscores  etc   is common practice

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