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Q: 

Firefox Unable to Handle %2b in Page Links

I noticed an issue where with the following HTML:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>UrlEncode Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="http://example.com/Process.php?OrderID=y%2bog%3d"&gt;Process&lt;/a&gt;
    </body>
</html>

Instead of replacing %2b with +, Firefox does so with a space instead so that clicking on the link tries to navigate to "http://example.com/Process.php?OrderID=y og=" instead of "http://example.com/Process.php?OrderID=y+og=". IE and Chrome has no problems with this at all; just Firefox. Has anybody else encountered this and was able to workaround it?

A: 

You're running into an issue with URL Encoding.

In your case, I would suggest forming the url like this:

http://example.com/Process.php?OrderID=y+bog%3d

Since it seems as if you intend to actually use the "+" symbol in that fashion. There's no problem with having a "+" symbol in your url.

Joseph  2009-11-12 21:15:07
The problem is that the URL may be generated by PHP's urlencode(), ASP.NET's HttpUtility.UrlEncode() or Python's urllib.quote(), so "+" in the original string will become "%2b".
Bullines  2009-11-12 21:25:15
A: 

So I saved the code you offered in a local HTML file, opened it in Firefox 3.5 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5), hovered the link (saw "y+og" in the status bar), clicked it and the location bar contained http://example.com/Process.php?OrderID=y%2bog%3d. Can you actually reproduce the problem with your example? What Firefox version on what OS? Exact steps to reproduce?

Nickolay  2009-11-13 07:08:53
The steps I use are to save a local file using the HTML above and open it in Firefox 3.5 on Windows Vista.
Bullines  2009-11-15 23:34:29
And then? What did you see when hovering the link? When clicking it? My guess is that it could be related to the regional settings and/or character encoding settings in Firefox.
Nickolay  2009-11-16 08:25:57

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