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slashes are replaced with %2F when sharing urls in facebook
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Hi all,
When we post a url in Facebook (http://www.example.com/Articles/index.php?p=/categories/movies) the slashes are replaced with %2F. What I guess is that this is not a Vanilla Issue. But the url structure (using ?p etc) may be causing this trouble. (I guessed because when I posted a url as I gave above, with example.com, the slashes still replaces).
Do you guys have any idea. Or do you face the same issue(Who don't use rewrite urls). Btw I cannot use url rewrite as I have a windows server hosting.
And really sorry for posting this question in this forum. But I hope someone could help me. Thanx in advance.
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When a url is encoded, the slash symbol
/is replaced with%2F.This shouldn't cause any problems.
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Thnx @hgtonight, But can't we avoid it, as the urls are not nice (Although technically there may not be any problem).And do you guys too face this issue? I mean isn't there a solution?
This isn't something that could be controlled on Vanilla's end. Is this an issue with the Share addon? Or does this just happen when you post a url to facebook?
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@hgtonight it happens whenever i post a url to facebook.(I guess index.php? kind of urling has something to do with it). and does not happen when i posted http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/181581#Comment_18158 . So i guess "index.php?p=" is the reason.
Should somehow implement pretty URLs, i guess.
And thnx once again.
I misunderstood your question initially.
The slashes after
index.php?p=are encoded since Facebook recognizes them as a parameter. Since it is best practice to sanitize parameter inputs using url encoding, the slashes get replaced.When 'pretty' urls are used, Facebook thinks it is just a 'regular' url where slashes matter and therefore do not encode them.
This will be the expected behavior for any website that sanitizes links.
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@hgtonight So only way for me to get this resolved is to have pretty URLs?
Thnx for the insights.