How to URL encode JSF outputLink value

Question

I've got some code that looks similar to this:

<h:outputLink value="#{bean.url}" />

But the output contains an apostrophe in the link href which is not URL encoded.

Am I doing something wrong or is this normal behaviour for outputLink? Thanks in advance.

(JBoss 4.2, Java 1.6)

Answer 1

It indeed won't do that for you. It will at highest append the jsessionid for the case the client doesn't support cookies. Only the link parameters which are added using <f:param> will be URL-encoded.

<h:outputLink value="#{bean.url}">Click
    <f:param name="param1" value="#{bean.urlParam1}" />
    <f:param name="param2" value="#{bean.urlParam2}" />
</h:outputLink>