Passing a date/time in a URL

centricCD wrote: What is the safest way to pass a date/time value in a URL?

I would pass it exactly as-is. Unless I see otherwise, I trust latest versions of browsers and of ColdFusion to be able to sort it out between themselves.

Don't take my word for it. Do the following test.

Turn on debugging in the Administrator. Run the following code as a CFM page.

<!--- This time tomorrow--->

<cfset testDate = dateAdd("d","1",now())>

<cfif isDefined("url.dt")>

    <cfoutput>      

        The test date is this time tomorrow: #url.dt# (unformatted).<br>

        Formatted: #dateFormat(url.dt,"dd/mm/yyyy")# #timeFormat(url.dt,"hh:mm:ss")#       

    </cfoutput>

</cfif>

<cfform method="get">

<cfinput name="dt" type="text" value="#testDate#">   

<cfinput name="sbmt" type="submit" value="Send">   

</cfform>

To get an idea what is going on, observe the following, besides the output:

• In the address field of the browser: the query-string after you press the Send button;
• In the debugging information at the bottom of the page: the value of the CGI variable QUERY_STRING and the URL Parameters.

Safe from what?