This little utility makes calls to a WCF service that calls the appropriate .NET HttpUtility function to perform HTML and URL encoding and decoding. I often need to perform these operations on some text so I hope this will help others as well.

I created a RESTful WCF service with a lot of help from Rick Strahl's posts: jQuery AJAX calls to a WCF REST Service and WCF REST Configuration for ASP.NET AJAX. These are great posts about how to create WCF services that are callable from jQuery using JSON serialization.