replacing special chars in url

Question

Hi,

we've got a program which is called mega plus. This software is basically web based but it doesn'T use normal http protocol. Instead, it seperates parameters using the pipe | (%7c).

Sadly, this disturbs confluence. Links to megaplus don't work unless I manually repeace those pipes with %7c.

Is there any way to do this automatically?

Jens Rapp · Answer

that'll help thank you

Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Answer

Some ugly user macro to the rescue ## @param Url:title=Url|type=string|required=true|desc=Server name (with protocol) ## @param Query:title=Query|type=string|required=true|desc=Query (to encode) #set ($urlEncoderClass=$content.class.forName('java.net.URLEncoder')) #set ($stringClass=$content.class.forName('java.lang.String')) #set ($getInstanceMethod=$urlEncoderClass.getDeclaredMethod('encode', $stringClass)) #set ($encoded=$getInstanceMethod.invoke(null, $paramQuery)) $paramUrl$paramQuery Basically, in your case you can hardcode the paramUrl parameter to make it easier to put such links (only the query string to enter, which will be encoded properly in a link, but will look as-is in link's caption)

Alejandro Conde Carrillo · Answer

That is because the pipe character ('|') is not allowed in URLs. That is why it needs to be encoded. You can read more in the standard RFC 1738.

I am afraid there is not an easy way to replace those character automatically. There is already a feature request for this in https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-12818.