Links with quotation marks are broken

Question

I'm not sure whether this is a valid (per spec) url or not, but this url

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9230708&st=samsung+lcd+32"&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218063831450

Doesn't work in stackoverflow. It doesn't get made into a link when you view the post. Notice the quotation mark? That appears to be the problem.

Here is a test. This is the page it should link to.

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.2 - none of these character are URL safe for content description — bananakata
– bananakata, Commented Sep 13, 2009 at 9:50

random · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-13 03:37:58Z

It's that double-quote (") in the URL. The parser is expecting another one because it would be used as the TITLE part of the link.

It's not intuitive, but you'll have to encode that double-quote as:

%22

So your above link would be like this:

http://example.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9230708&st=samsung+lcd+32%22&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218063831450

That edit was obviously just an excuse to post that certain edit summary. — random
– random, Commented Sep 13, 2009 at 3:38

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:31:25Z

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As of recently, when entering a link via the button (or Ctrl-L), the characters will automatically be escaped.

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answered Mar 11, 2011 at 13:28

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