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JoJo
JoJo

Reputation: 20115

Share link on Facebook is strangly encoded

How do you share a link on Facebook? I have no problem with submitting a top level URL (site.com). When I try to share a deeper link (site.com/anything), Facebook incorrectly encodes the link. I tried pre-encoding my URL with Javascript's escape(), but Facebook doesn't like that either.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1463

Answers (1)

Dexter
Dexter

Reputation: 18452

Deeper links work fine, provided that the link actually resolves to something. I only get the encoded path if the URL does not resolve at all.

Update: I suspect in this instance, resolve = responds with a 200 OK HTTP response. The URL you linked (http://veetle.com/v/4d75ad1a6d412) gives me a 301 redirect to http://veetle.com/view.php/4d75ad1a6d412, which in turn gives me a 302 redirect to http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4d75ad1a6d412.

When I enter the last URL into the Facebook share page, it resolves fine: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4d75ad1a6d412

Upvotes: 1

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