need special characters in URL link

Question

_{Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:01 PM}

I have a web page that contains the standard Links list in SP 2010.  Some my users need links to sites that use special characters.  If I paste in the URL, SP converts the string to the % character representation, but then the link will not work.

Any suggestions?

All replies (6)

_{Tuesday, December 4, 2012 3:33 AM ✅Answered}

Yeah, .NET is going to encode that URL (this isn't SharePoint-specific).  I *think* the only way out of this would to be create a special field type that didn't involve SPUrlUtility (which will go through the process of encoding).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

SharePoint - Nauplius Applications
Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP - 2012

_{Friday, November 30, 2012 4:13 AM}

Can you provide a list of "special" characters?  SharePoint does strip out/convert certain characters.

SharePoint - Nauplius Applications
Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP - 2012

_{Monday, December 3, 2012 7:54 PM}

Just about all of the ones that are prohibited, such as <+*@$>  - need ;:? as well.   

Any ideas?

_{Monday, December 3, 2012 8:12 PM}

Can you provide a full URL example that is breaking, and place it in a code block so the forum doesn't modify the formatting?

SharePoint - Nauplius Applications
Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP - 2012

_{Monday, December 3, 2012 11:15 PM}

It is to an internal intranet site, not accessible to the public.

an example would have strings such as:

s=**+Contact+From+Web+Page:+Problem+**;b=FFF;d=DDD;stylesheet=/css/main.css;

Each of these sub-string parts are sending information to the site, configuring the request. 

I can paste the string into a browser and it works fine.  When I insert the same paste into the SP URL field, the paste shows correctly, but when I save it, then the substitution to the percent codes occur and the link never works.  Apparently the internal site has to have the special characters (not part of my organization).

_{Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:24 PM}

Ok

Thanks for the information!