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I am trying to send a request to my server using jQuery/ajax: in this call, i need to transmit a string, a path to a file containing backslashes. However, all I get is something like this:

someText

Clearly, the backslashes are misinterpreted, so i tried using escape(), encodeURI() etc combined, each alone and various combinations, but still could not make it work.

This is my code:

<button onclick="Start('File', encodeURIComponent("some\Text"))">Click!</button>

function Start(PlayerType, Pfad) {
$.ajax({
    url: "Player/Start",
    type: "get",
    data: {
        Typ: PlayerType,
        Pfad: Pfad
    },
    dataType: "html",
    success: function (result) {
        $("#PlayerDIV").html(result);
    }
});
}

public ActionResult Start(string Typ, string Path)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(Pfad)); //then returns the plain text without the \
        ...
    }

Thank you for your help!