Escape Characters

When chucking data in cookie you cannot use certain characters in this example ‘ : ‘ . To get around this you use escape and unescape. Trying to use the escape as such:

Response.Cookies("Lines")("URL4") = escape("http://www.ASP101.com")

Gives the following result:

URL4=http%3A//www.ASP101.com

Which I don't think does anything to help. So using it like this:

Response.Cookies("Lines")("URL4") = "escape(http://www.ASP101.com)"

Gives the following result:

URL4=escape(http://www.ASP101.com)

Which is the correct result apart from the ‘escape' actually appearing.