URL encode variable in AS3?

Question

I get the following error when trying to pass variables via URLRequestMethod.POST;

Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.

Is there a method for string URL Encoding?

Answer 1

There are escape() and unescape() as top level functions of ActionScript 3 for URL encoding/decoding.

Answer 2

Solution to this problem is: You have to set URLLoaderDataFormat to URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT not URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES. Because VARIABLES means different types of data, not multiple items in URLVariables.