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user755806
user755806

Reputation: 6815

Colon in URL while redirecting?

I have a URL as below.

http://editor-sandbox.multiscreensite.com/home/dashboard?stat:339716385fb44bffae0d915cece952b8&dm_sso=2!eyJ2ZXJz

here the url has colon in it (:)

Now I am redirecting the URL as below.

pageRef= new PageReference(aboveURL);
                pageRef.setRedirect(true);      
                return pageRef;

But in browser, it is removing all the url params and final URL in the browser is :

http://editor-sandbox.multiscreensite.com/home/dashboard

How can I retain all the values in the URL including colon?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 856

Answers (1)

CodeBoy
CodeBoy

Reputation: 3300

Colon is a reserved character in URLs (see RFC 3986). Whenever there is a chance that values may have reserved characters, you should urlencode it (this will replace : with %3A, ! with %21, and others if any):

url = 'http://editor-sandbox.multiscreensite.com/home/dashboard?'
    + EncodingUtil.urlEncode('stat:339716385fb44bffae0d915cece952b8,'UTF-8')
    + '&dm_sso='
    + EncodingUtil.urlEncode(2!eyJ2ZXJz','UTF-8');

Upvotes: 1

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