GeekFindr: Url encoding/decoding
Ok, this was a minor itch I’ve had over a really long time - every now and again I have the need to url encode something or find out what some encoded string is. Hey, what can I say, I’ve been working in the web. It doesn’t happen often enough that my true laziness would kick in and I’d write some accessible everywhere tool, just often enough to be a pain in the ass writing a quick perl commandline. I think I’m in this state because I’ve had to do this from a time before Google, can you remember such a time?? So, I just had some ingrained habits developed over the years.
Fortunately, now there is a Google and other people have solved this problem. There’s tons of these things everywhere but I discovered this lovely one on meyerweb.com. It very conveniently gives you a large text area to type or paste in your string and two buttons to decode and encode. If you ever run into some crazy situation where things are double encoded or need to be, simply pressing the button more than once gets you that, unlike others where you’d have to paste the output back into the input area.
Ahh.. relief. Nothing tremendous, but a nice little tool to have bookmarked.
