One of our members dragged in a link from an URL which contains spaces. Those spaces were properly encoded into %20 in the link. However the link then doesn’t work. When I hover over the link I see the % has been encoded to %25, leaving the space hanging there as a 20. In fact I’ll drag that link …

Have you updated recently? A bug that sounds like this was fixed in the last week or so. [image] Evernote oneboxes have extra %25 for each % in URL bug I got a report that though Evernote URLs one-box as expected, clicking on the link goes the wrong place. Doing a url.gsu…

That sounds like the one! I searched for %20… if I had looked for %25 it would have come up. Thanks! [image] Cardinalflyer: I’m on a Discourse version from July 15th… any chance this was fixed lately?

When an url containing spaces is dragged in the % is encoded rather than the %20

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 19, 2019, 6:18am 2

Have you updated recently? A bug that sounds like this was fixed in the last week or so.

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When an url containing spaces is dragged in the % is encoded rather than the %20

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