Send url with querystring with SmtpClient
c#, query-string, smtpclient, urlencode
Solution
This works fine for me:
var client = new SmtpClient();
client.Host = "smtp.somehost.com";
var message = new MailMessage();
message.From = new MailAddress("from@example.com");
message.To.Add(new MailAddress("to@example.com"));
message.IsBodyHtml = true;
message.Subject = "test";
string url = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("http://server.com/page.aspx?var1=foo&var2=bar");
message.Body = "<html><body><a href=\"" + url + "\">Test</a></body></html>";
client.Send(message);
Problem
Basic question here: I'm sending emails using the default SmtpClient of the .NET framework (3.5). The bodytype is HTML (IsBodyHtml = true) In the body I've added a url with two parameters in the querystring like so: ``` http://server.com/page.aspx?var1=foo&var2=bar ``` This get's encoded to: ``` http://server.com/page.aspx?var1=foo%26var2=bar (the ampersand is encoded as percent-26) ``` When doing a simple `Request["var2"]` I get 'null'. What should I do to properly encode the ampersand in the mail message?