Querystring inside Querystring

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I have a problem on my webpage with an querystring I have to pass inside a querystring.

The main querystring is a cookie checker. And inside this I need to pass a second URL that contain also a querystring with &. The second querystring is now broken after website is parsed:

http://www.myurl.com/check_affiliate_cookie_exist.jsp?contractId=3241248&referrer=*&foundString=linkok&notFoundString=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WZ7CHZVKKLNQW"

When I now click on the second link, it is broken at & and the second part of this "sub querystring" is broken.

Any idea how to deal with this?

Use PHP's urlencode() to encode characters like & to be passed in the url. Then call urldecode() to retrieve the original url. — sfandler
– sfandler, Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 11:31

meda · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-27 11:34:57Z

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You need to escape, you can use js for example

var url = mainUrl + encodeURIComponent(secondUrl);

answered Oct 27, 2015 at 11:34

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itoctopus · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-27 11:34:57Z

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You should use rawurlencode if you're using PHP. You will then need to decode the URL using rawurldecode. If you're not using PHP, then check for equivalent functions in your scripting language.

Hope this helps!

answered Oct 27, 2015 at 11:34

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