Passing variable with slashes in URL

Currently I have a problem with IE. The IE browser will not bring up my encoded url. When clicking on the link I either receive a script error or nothing happens. The issue is with the double quotes. IE does not recognized the encoded character %22 for quotes. IE does seem to process single quotes (%27) OK. Here is my code to encode the string variable and create the link The string I am having problems with = "All Inclusive" Casa De Campo Golf = $headline $url_title = rawurlencode( $headline ); print "<tr><td align = 'left'><font face='arial' size='2'><a href='javascript:openQuote(\"$main_url/miniquote_form.inc.php3?site=$site&ad =$ad&header=$url_title\", \"helpWin\");'>Contact us for information</a></font>"; Here is what the url looks like in the Netscape browser window header=%22All%20Inclusive%22%20Casa%20De%20Campo%20Golf If I include this code: $headline = addslashes ($headline); before the: $url_title = rawurlencode( $headline ); IE now processes the url link and the string displays correctly for me in my popup window. Here is the IE url: header="All%20Inclusive"%20Casa%20De%20Campo%20Golf However -- NS now displays the string with backslahes. Here is the comparable NS url: header=%5C%22All%20Inclusive%5C%22%20Casa%20De%20Campo%20Golf Here is the code in my form to display the header variable (which I thought would strip out the slashes) <?php $headertitle = stripslashes( $header ); print "$headertitle"; ?> I have tried htmlentities as: $url_title = htmlentites( $headline ); and neither IE nor Netscape would work -- the url link would not work. perhaps my syntax is incorrect for this function? Claudia