Hi there,
I am using wixLocation.query to obtain query items from the URL:
/?item1=value&item2=S ome%20value%20that%20has%20spaces
When I call wixLocation.query, I see that query.item2 actually equals ‘Some+value+that+has+spaces’ not ‘Some value that has spaces’
Regards,
Attakorn S.
That’s not necessarily wrong at all and since they’ve made this choice they can’t really go back on it. You should be able to safely replace + with literal space because actual pluses will themselves be encoded to (I think) %2B.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2678551/when-to-encode-space-to-plus-or-20
Hi Lee, thanks for your reply. I understand the argument about encoding spaces to + but this is decoding. %20 should always get converted to literal space, not plus sign, especially this has nothing to do with application/x-www-form-urlencoded. I can’t replace + with literal space either because if I for example the user WANTS the string ‘Some+value’, this will be enconded to item2=S ome%2Bvalue, and wixLocation.query.item2 will be ‘Some+value’. Now if I turn + into literal space, I will get ‘Some value’ instead of ‘Some+value’.
Ah you’re right. It has unencoded everything else already. I also noticed while briefly testing that sometimes you do get literal space, though I couldn’t readily understand when/why.
Yeah you’re right, sometimes it does decode %20 correctly to literal space but most of the time it doesn’t…very weird!