URL in Links converts & to & making the URL invalid

pranaysharmadelhi wrote:since URL's are supposed to have & in them[*]

Ampersands in HTML must be encoded as & That is, this is correct HTML:

<a href="/?a=b&amp;c=d">link</a>

If you see a URL like this in the HTML source:

<a href="/?a=b&amp;amp;c=d">link</a>

then your server-side code double-encodes HTML, which would be a bug on your part.

pranaysharmadelhi wrote:I am not a noob and I dont want a noob to reply either plz.

Yes, you are a noob and A.M gave you the correct answer.
If you look at the source of this page you will see that every & in any link is written as &amp;

I wonder if someone will be willing to help you in the future and being called a noob due to your ignorance.

alfonsoml wrote:

pranaysharmadelhi wrote:I am not a noob and I dont want a noob to reply either plz.

Yes, you are a noob and A.M gave you the correct answer.
If you look at the source of this page you will see that every & in any link is written as &amp;

I wonder if someone will be willing to help you in the future and being called a noob due to your ignorance.

True words Alfonso!

pranaysharmadelhi wrote:I am not a noob and I dont want a noob to reply either plz.
I am talking about URL, link.
For eg. I have a text linking to this post.
The correct HTML would be <a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/forums/posting.php?mode=reply&f=6&t=12464">Click here to visit &amp; reply.</a>
Instead what I get from fckeditor is:
<a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/forums/posting.php?mode=reply&amp;f=6&amp;t=12464">Click here to visit &amp; reply.</a>
Are you getting what I am trying to accomplish here?
Now, if you try and run this URL:
posting.php?mode=reply&amp;f=6&amp;t=12464
It does not compute.

Ampersands in HTML must be encoded as &amp; That is, this is correct HTML:

<a href="/?a=b&amp;c=d">link</a>

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12464



viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=12464

then your server-side code double-encodes HTML, which would be a bug on your part.

Never mind. You were right and I was wrong. In an effort to stop SQL injection I was removing semi-colons from the form data, since no-one has any business entering them on this particular web page. That was making links look like:

viewtopic.php?f=6&ampt=12464

Even if replacing & with &amp; is valid HTML, I'd still prefer that FCKEditor submit the data as it was entered.

followedproceededNote: in Drupal, despite the naming convention, "input" filters very properly process on "output" (http://drupal.org/node/263002).



http://drupal.org/node/257026

<input onClick="this.form.action='https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=email@domain.com&item_name=Item... blah blah blah ;this.form.submit();" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal Item" src="image.gif" type="image" />

<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=email@domain.com&item_name=Item... blah blah blah" alt="PayPal Item"> <img href="image.gif" /></a>

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12464


viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=12464

<a class="postlink-local" href="http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=12464">viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=12464</a>
<!-- l --><br /><br />
...and then you try to access it with the following URL:<br /><!-- l -->
<a class="postlink-local" href="http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;amp;t=12464">viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;amp;t=12464</a>

Yes, I know. It was an example showing what CKEditor does to the URL. I did that on purpose to DEMONSTRATE the issue caused by the editor.

When you paste the URL directly in the editor it does NOT double-encode it. When you use the Link dialog to mark text with a URL it DOES double-encode it. That is the issue we're trying to convey to you.

You keep saying it is "our code" that is the issue, but if that was the case then it would also be double-encoding the URLs pasted directly into the editor, but it does not. JUST the URLs created with the Link dialog.

http://lotusfleet.org/cktest.php

http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12464
[url]http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12464[/url]
[url=http://cksource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12464]Topic[/url]

Do not know if it can help. In the CMS (Guppy) that I use, there is a config file for ckeditor.
One finds a line about forcing simple ampersand so that it can be activated or not, according to the choice of the webmaster:

config.forceSimpleAmpersand = false;

(or "true")

Would adding this line of code to the config.js file do the trick ? With the settings you wish, of course.

But maybe this has nothing to do with what you are speaking about. I am really no coder and encounter difficulties in understanding technical English. So please be nice and polite if it's completely irrelevant. But tell me.

Encoding ampersands (once) is fine -- and even valid -- for links within an HTML page.

But, if you use CKEditor for building EMAIL MESSAGES, then you do NOT want ampersands to be encoded by the editor. In a common email client like Outlook, if a link contains &amp;, it breaks. This has nothing to do with double-encoding or n00bs.

My solution was to use:

CKEDITOR.config.forceSimpleAmpersand = true;

on the page containing my email editor.



Alternately you could put:

config.forceSimpleAmpersand = true;

in your main editor config.js file if you want this setting to apply to all of your editor instances.