URL redirection and URL encoding
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I’m having an issue with URL encoding. For example: “https://my.domain?page=somevalue&id=1” will be encoded as “https://my.domain%3page%3Dsomevalue%26id%3D1”.
I’m including some relevant WordPress install and server environment info below if this could be the issue. I disabled other plugins to see if that was causing the issue, and it didn’t appear to resolve this. Thanks in advance.
WordPress Version: 6.3
WordPress Cron: Yes
Server Software: nginx
PHP Version: 7.4.33.4
Mcrypt Enabled: No
Mbstring Enabled: Yes
Loaded Extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sodium, cgi-fcgi, newrelic, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dba, dom, mbstring, FFI, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, json, ldap, exif, msgpack, mysqli, pdo_mysql, Phar, posix, readline, redis, shmop, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, ssh2, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, memcached, Zend OPcache
Database Management System: MySQL
Version: 8.0.34
Database Character: Set latin1
Database Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
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I’ve embedded two screenshots here: (1) Adding an example URL and then (2) the “Check redirect” pop-up screen which shows the URL encoding. If I browse to the URL with the encoding, the redirection works, however, I want the redirection without the encoding.
In terms of entering the URL in the “Source URL” field, I tried both copying and pasting as well as typing the characters (assuming that may have something to do with the encoding) but both ways result in the encoded URL.
Here’s a link to the screengrab in case it is too small to read in the post:
https://lopc.org/wp-content/themes/LOPC2020-cc-child/assets/images/redirection-screenshot.jpgThanks!
I’m digging a little deeper into this. It appears that the example URL above does redirect. However, I’m actually wanting to redirect a WordPress backend URL, i.e., “/wp-admin?page=somepage&id=33”. Oddly, the URL encoded version of the URL DOES redirect, but the URL as it is listed does not redirect (it just goes to the wp-admin page). Can this plugin not be used for WordPress backend URLs? A little puzzled why the encoded URL does redirect but the URL as inputted doesn’t.
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