A html space is showing as instead of

Question

Passing a filename to the firefox browser causes it to replace spaces with %2520 instead of %20.

I have the following HTML in a file calle

Answer 1

The following code snippet resolved my issue. Thought this might be useful to others.

var strEnc = this.$.txtSearch.value.replace(/\s/g, "-");
strEnc = strEnc.replace(/-/g, " ");

Rather using default encodeURIComponent my first line of code is converting all spaces into hyphens using regex pattern /\s\g and the following line just does the reverse, i.e. converts all hyphens back to spaces using another regex pattern /-/g. Here /g is actually responsible for finding all matching characters.

When I am sending this value to my Ajax call, it traverses as normal spaces or simply %20 and thus gets rid of double-encoding.