Problem with Facebook full URL encoding and Glamorgan partial URL decoding

[Geert Van Pamel]

Magnus, @Paul Hermans: would like to publish the following link on Facebook:

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorgan.html?category=Files_by_User:Paul_Hermans&depth=1&month=last

Facebook actually performs a full URL encoding, what results in:

• https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorgan.html?category=Files%5fby%5fUser%3aPaul%5fHermans&depth=1&month=last

The problem is now that you seem not to do a full decoding of the URL which makes that Glamorgan searches the category "Files by User%3aPaul Hermans" instead of "Files by User:Paul Hermans".

Could you please apply a full URL decoding in your application?

Thanks, Geertivp (talk) 10:10, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Magnus_Manske#Problem_with_Facebook_full_URL_encoding_and_Glamorgan_partial_URL_decoding