Using "Get project versions paginated" when version name contains special chars

[Rees_ Ian]

I am using the Get PRoject Version paginated api call to get the fix version id for a version I know the name of fix version.

I am using the name of the fix version using the query parameter which should find the version with matching name or description.  This all works find when the fix version name is simple but on some more complicated fix version names, the web request just goes "Waiting" and eventually is "aborted" with the message ...:Illegal character in query at index 77:...".

Question 1: How do I make the query resilient to people using 'special' characters in their fix version name and causing the above error

Question 2: The potential flaw in the above is that it also matches Description whereas I want to specifically look at a version name - if I make the call without the query parameter and get a 'paginated' list of all fix versions - how do i parse a list in the webresponse body to find the entry that matches my fix version name ? Thanks 

[Rees_ Ian · Accepted solution]

It appears that using urlencode on the query parameter enables me to get the id

.../rest/api/3/project/{{issue.project.key}}/version?query={{varFixVersionName.urlEncode}}