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Encode spaces in URL path
See original GitHub issueDescribe the bug Sometimes the query string is not encoded and it comes spaces within, for instance: “https://example.org/find?q=foo bar baz”. Therefore a DDG search is made, instead of opening the site directly.
Expected behavior
Be able to detect if the string matches some url pattern, and if so, replace those spaces with %20 string, in order to go to specific url.
Smartphone (please complete the following information):
- DDG App Version: 5.87.0
- OS: Android
Issue Analytics
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- Created 2 years ago
- Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)
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ok, gotcha. Good to know that it happens when opening external links. Thanks. Will investigate the issue 👍
Haven’t you able to open an external link with spaces? For instance, a wikipedia article served from apps who doesn’t encode properly the urls, for instance: “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina del Campo”
As you can see the url is bad parsed, but if you c&p the whole link the application should be able to replace such blank spaces with
%20characters. As simple as that.