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.
Nice. Will this also decode url escape code characters?
It does now. Good idea.
It’s possible get a source code?
What about using isapi for rewriting the urls?
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.
The link for downloading the URLDecoder.air file is generates a broken app. Please check it – I would like to try your application. Thank you.