Title: url encoding
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# url encoding

 *  [shua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shua/)
 * (@shua)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-encoding/)
 * I have a page that has a flash movie in it. Up until 2.5.1 upgrade it has played
   as expected.
 * In 2.5.1, the url that is passed in the embed parameter is encoding the ‘&” to‘#
   038;’. The result is the flash does not play (because the url path to the movie
   is now wrong).
 * Any suggestions on how to make 2.5.1 not encode that character?

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 *  [couzin2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/couzin2000/)
 * (@couzin2000)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-encoding/#post-765927)
 * I’m having the same exact problem… here’s the code I put in:
 *     ```
       blablabla
       <param name="movie" value="http://lesbelvederes.com/audio/xspf_player_slim.swf?playlist_url=http://lesbelvederes.com/audio/vltelb_playlist1.xspf&amp;autoload=true" />
       ```
   
 * And when I open with the Source Viewer of Firefox 3.x, here’s what I get:
 * > <param name=”movie” value=”[http://lesbelvederes.com/audio/xspf_player_slim.swf?playlist_url=http://lesbelvederes.com/audio/vltelb_playlist1.xspf&autoload=true&#8221](http://lesbelvederes.com/audio/xspf_player_slim.swf?playlist_url=http://lesbelvederes.com/audio/vltelb_playlist1.xspf&autoload=true&#8221);/
   > >
 * What can be done to AVOID having to go directly into the MySQL db and changing
   the char? Can we use the same manner as PHP and just put some sort of reserved
   char infront of it to make avoid the built-in conversion?
 * NOTE: EVEN HERE, THE ACTUAL AMPERSAND SYMBOL GETS CONVERTED TO &AMP… WHAT A NICE
   BUG!

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 * Last reply from: [couzin2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/couzin2000/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-encoding/#post-765927)
 * Status: not resolved

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