{"id":541,"date":"2025-04-09T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:39:40","slug":"escape-url-filter-only-escapes-spaces-not-special-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/escape-url-filter-only-escapes-spaces-not-special-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape URL Filter Only Escapes Spaces, Not Special Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN>The\u00a0<\/SPAN>escape<SPAN>\u00a0URL filter in HubL (HubSpot&#8217;s templating language) only escapes spaces (<\/SPAN><SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN><SPAN>) in URLs but fails to encode other special characters (e.g.,\u00a0<\/SPAN>%<SPAN>,\u00a0<\/SPAN>$<SPAN>,\u00a0<\/SPAN>&amp;<SPAN>,\u00a0<\/SPAN>?<SPAN>,\u00a0<\/SPAN>#<SPAN>,\u00a0<\/SPAN>+<SPAN>, etc.) as expected. This can lead to broken or malformed URLs when dynamic content contains reserved or unsafe characters.<BR \/><BR \/>The\u00a0escape_url filter should fully URL-encode the string according to standard URL encoding rules (e.g., converting\u00a0%\u00a0to\u00a0%25,\u00a0$\u00a0to\u00a0%24, spaces to\u00a0%20\u00a0or\u00a0+, etc.), similar to JavaScript&#8217;s\u00a0encodeURIComponent()\u00a0or other common URL encoding methods.<BR \/><BR \/><\/SPAN><\/P><P>Currently, the filter only replaces spaces with<SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>%20<SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>(or<SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>+), leaving other special characters unencoded. For example:<\/P><UL><LI><P>Input:<SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>{{ &#8220;sales%data$2024&#8221; | escape_url }}<\/P><\/LI><LI><P>Expected Output:<SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>sales%25data%242024<\/P><\/LI><LI><P>Actual Output:<SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>sales%data$2024<\/P><\/LI><\/UL><P>This causes issues when the URL is used in links or API calls where special characters must be escaped.<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><P><STRONG>Impact:<\/STRONG><\/P><UL><LI><P>Broken links or redirects when URLs contain unescaped special characters.<\/P><\/LI><LI><P>Inconsistent behavior compared to other templating systems or standard URL encoding.<\/P><\/LI><\/UL><P><STRONG>Proposed Fix:<\/STRONG><BR \/><SPAN>Update the\u00a0<\/SPAN>escape<SPAN>\u00a0filter to fully URL-encode all reserved\/unsafe characters, not just spaces. Alternatively, introduce a new filter (e.g.,\u00a0<\/SPAN>url_encode<SPAN>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/SPAN>encode_uri_component<SPAN>) for stricter compliance with URL encoding standards.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0escape\u00a0URL filter in HubL (HubSpot&#8217;s templating language) only escapes spaces (\u00a0) in URLs but fails to encode other special characters (e.g.,\u00a0%,\u00a0$,\u00a0&amp;,\u00a0?,\u00a0#,\u00a0+, etc.) as expected. This can lead to broken or malformed URLs when dynamic content contains reserved or unsafe characters.The\u00a0escape_url filter should fully URL-encode the string according to standard URL encoding rules (e.g., converting\u00a0%\u00a0to\u00a0%25,\u00a0$\u00a0to\u00a0%24, spaces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}