Pass a parameter containing '%' in URL?

Question

While passing my url, for example something:8000/something.jsp?param1=update¶m2=1000¶m3=SearchString%¶m4=3 , I am getting following erro

Answer 1

See this: Encode URL in JavaScript?

Basically you need to make sure the variables you are passing are encoded (the '%' character is a special character in URL encoding).

Any special characters - %,?,&, etc... need to be encoded. They are encoded with '%' and their hex number. So '%' should become '%25', '&' becomes '%26', etc.

Update: see When are you supposed to use escape instead of encodeURI / encodeURIComponent? for why you should avoid using escape.