Symphony.

Has anyone gotten around this problem of passing URL params through Symphony and retaining the spaces in them? All spaces are getting replaced by plus signs (+) which is screwing up our search results when we’re using dynamic XML data sources for search.

I feel like I’ve had this issue before but frankly at this point my brain is totally fried and I can’t remember anything about it.

@czheng: Is that through the DER extension?

No, just straight up.

URL-encoded spaces either become a + or a %20, you can’t circumvent that. What exactly is the problem with your dynamic XML data source?

Any parameters appended onto the URL of a Dynamic XML data source are URL encoded. If it’s causing a problem, you could URL decode them at the other end?

Switched to using GETs. There the space doesn’t get turned into a +

Although this thread is quite old, I recently ran into a similar problem and wanted to share my solution. I am using a url param to filter a DS. The interface is a search field, so I wanted to repopulate the field with the search param when the form is submitted.

The problem was when someone searched for a query with a special character the search field would then show the encoded query, i.e. a search for “Mary’s” would show “Mary%27s” in the search field.

The answer was to decode the param before re-populating the field. A google search turned up these two stylesheets for encoding and decoding URLs:

http://skew.org/xml/stylesheets/url-encode/

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