How to pass / in url query string

Question

I have url like below that I am passing in the query string

URL = canada/ontario/shop6

When I access this param that I passed in the query string it discards all the data after first / and gives me just canada as result.

How can I pass the query string with all the / (slashes)?

How about passing 'URL=canada/ontario/shop6' to encodeURIComponent? — MaySoMusician
– MaySoMusician, Commented Aug 9, 2020 at 20:40
%2F should be equivalent to / in the query string. If it's not, then your server is not compliant with the HTTP spec. — D. Pardal
– D. Pardal, Commented Aug 9, 2020 at 20:50
@Demon37 Unfornately I think you can't directly pass a slash in a query string. But you can decode %2 back to / by decodeURIComponent. Let me know why you don't want to encode/decode a slash? — MaySoMusician
– MaySoMusician, Commented Aug 9, 2020 at 20:51

Antonin Riche · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-09 20:51:13Z

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If you absolutely want to pass it through the querystring, you have to encode it with encodeURIComponent and then decode it with decodeURIComponent

answered Aug 9, 2020 at 20:51

Antonin Riche

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