# Searching % gives an error while trying to load page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-gives-an-error-while-trying-to-load-page/30896
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2015年七月8日 15:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-gives-an-error-while-trying-to-load-page/30896 "2015-07-08T15:37:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![illspirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@illspirit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/illspirit)
#### Post date: [2015年七月8日 15:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-gives-an-error-while-trying-to-load-page/30896/1 "2015-07-08T15:37:12Z")

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If you search for anything with % in it and hit Enter, you get an error page.

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [2015年七月15日 10:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-gives-an-error-while-trying-to-load-page/30896/2 "2015-07-15T10:06:20Z")

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Submitted a fix here but I’m still having trouble with writing the tests

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3607](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3607)

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [2015年七月22日 00:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-gives-an-error-while-trying-to-load-page/30896/3 "2015-07-22T00:53:44Z")

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@sam lets close this? 😄

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015年七月22日 00:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-gives-an-error-while-trying-to-load-page/30896/4 "2015-07-22T00:54:01Z")

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