Problem with openURL when sending Mail

Question

Hi All
I am trying to send mail from my app using
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: [NSURL URLWithString:emailData]];
emailData contains a google URL that i want to send via email:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=45.578982,-73.565698&daddr=45.578982,-73.5 65698
my problem is that on Mail app it is showing on the following portion
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d
i did a couple of tests and find out that the problem is with the "&" i tried & or & did not work cause as soon as it finds teh "&" it drop the whole string that comes after it.
Any help on how I should format this string to appear correctly on my email will be greatly appreciated
thx for your help

Answer 1

You missed the point of my reply. You need to escape anything that you send. When you send 'http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=45.578982,-73.565698&daddr=45.578982,-73 .565698' it's just not going to work. As mentioned, you need to Google how to escape variables when sent via GET. Not to mention, your openURL command is wrong as well:
[UIApplication sharedApplication openURL: NSURL URLWithString:emailData];
Where emailData is:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=45.578982,-73.565698&daddr=45.578982,-73.565698
will absolutely never work. Check the docs for how to use openURL for sending an email using the mailto: protocol. Also, if the emailData that you send using openURL: doesn't look like the escaped string from this tool: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/Utils/endecode.html you aren't properly escaping your URL params.