SID-01377: Keyword search on string with special characters

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.0	Perl version:	5.0
Category:	CategorySearch	Server OS:	Debian 6.0	Last update:	14 years ago

I've implemented a search tool using an html textbox, a submit button, and a SEARCH with a nested URLPARAM. For most queries, it works as expected --- However, I noticed that when the search string contains an apostrophe, the character is translated into its HTML encoded equivalent and the search is performed on the translated string. I am guessing this is happening in the URLPARAM, because the string that gets posted to the URL has apostrophe intact.

How can I change the URLPARAM variable expression so that the search string comes back from the URL as-entered?

-- JordanEcker - 2012-01-13

Discussion and Answer

You need to escape URLPARAM values properly, and this depends where it is used. See encode="" parameter in VarURLPARAM.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-01-13

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