- (NSString *)urlEncode { NSMutableString *output = [NSMutableString string]; const unsigned char *source = (const unsigned char *)[self UTF8String]; int sourceLen = strlen((const char *)source); for (int i = 0; i < sourceLen; ++i) { const unsigned char thisChar = source[i]; // if (thisChar == ' '){ // [output appendString:@"+"]; if (thisChar == ' '){ [output appendString:@"%20"]; } else if (thisChar == '.' || thisChar == '-' || thisChar == '_' || thisChar == '~' || (thisChar >= 'a' && thisChar <= 'z') || (thisChar >= 'A' && thisChar <= 'Z') || (thisChar >= '0' && thisChar <= '9')) { [output appendFormat:@"%c", thisChar]; } else { [output appendFormat:@"%%%02X", thisChar]; } } return output; }