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user411103
user411103

Reputation:

URL with "@" parameter automatically transformed to "<span>@</span>"

I am sending an activation email to my users that looks like this:

Please, click here in order to validate your email address and complete the activation
of your account.

Where the words "click here" have a link to this URL:

https://example.com/users/[email protected]&regid=APA91bGSRWxbsClcN9-SY

It works well in most cases, but one costumer that opens the link with the Android browsers below automatically transforms the URL to https://example.com/users/activate?username=myemail<span>@</span>example.com&regid=APA91bGSRWxbsClrN9-SY

From my app log I receive a request for https://example.com/users/activate?username=myemail%3Cspan%3E@%3C/span%3E... which causes the app to break.

How can I prevent this?

BROWSER CONF:

“Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; HUAWEI P6 S-U06 Build/HuaweiP6S-U06) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/30.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36”

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (2)

nicandris
nicandris

Reputation: 327

Check this tutorial on HTML URL Encoding. The URL Encode for the symbol "@" is "%40" so use:

https://example.com/users/activate?username=myemail%40example.com&regid=APA91bGSRWxbsClcN9-SY

Upvotes: 0

user411103
user411103

Reputation:

Fixed by replacing the symbol "@" in the URL by the equivalent encoding "%40".

Upvotes: 1

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