If I enter an internal URL with a query string such as : node/xxx&foo=bar in a CCK-link field (with a "static title" and "link target" set to default), when I click on that link, the URL requested is : http://mysite.org/?q=node/xxx%26foo%2bar.
If I replace the internal URL with the associated external URL : http://mysite.org/?q=node/xxx&foo=bar, the URL requested is correct.
I have the same behaviour with the 5.x version.

Is there any explanation ?

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prunelle’s picture

prunelle commented
Title: Query string withing an internal URL is not correctly passed to the browser. » Query string within an internal URL is not correctly passed to the browser.

Again, just to correct some mistakes and be perhaps more clear ... Hoping to get any answer ...

If I enter an internal URL with a query string such as : node/xxx&foo=bar in a CCK-link field (configured with a "static title" and "link target" set to default), when I click on that link in the node content, the URL requested to the browser is : http://mysite.org/?q=node/xxx%26foo%3Dbar and the result is "Page not found".
If I replace the internal URL with the related external URL : http://mysite.org/?q=node/xxx&foo=bar, the URL requested is correct.
I have the same behaviour with the 5.x version.

26 and 3D are the ISO 8859 hexa codes of "&" and "=".

Is this behaviour due to a bug ?

Anyway, it's annoying to have to enter a full URL for a default value. When the site name changes (from test to production site for example), I have not to forget to edit those default values.

Thanks for any answer.

Regards.

jcfiala’s picture

jcfiala commented
Category: support » bug

That sounds like a bug to me. Thanks for being so specific about the details - that's really helpful for me.

The 'full URL' thing may end up being fixed by #412404: CCK link should take token as part of URL.

mstrelan’s picture

mstrelan commented

This also applies to 7.x This only applies to 7.x if you are like me and you do something horribly wrong in your template files.

jcfiala’s picture

jcfiala commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Okay, I see what the problem is.

You want to go to path node/xxx, with query string foo=bar.

What you're entering is node/xxx&foo=bar
What you should enter is node/xxx?foo=bar

Basically, although with clean urls off, the path you want is ?q=node/xxx&foo=bar, the url handling in drupal assumes that the 'node/xxx' is the path - so you need to put the ? after it.