is it ok to pass strings with spaces through url

hi!

the title says it:
is it ok to pass strings with spaces trough url?

i tried it and it seems to work, but it also seems to me that more correct way to do it is to use '+' instead of space since that's what php get method does.
i'm using window.location to redirect to another page.

As far as I'm aware, the space is not a legal character in URLs. Some browsers may accept it and others not.

depending on how you generate and load the url, spaces are generally converted into "%20" in the actual url string and then converted back into spaces when read by JS or server-side query string requests.

though i would recommend avoiding spaces, as long as you encode and decode your url querystrings correctly, there's no problem with them.

DOM properties like window.location, a.href, script.src, etc, will handle this automatically, just like they fully qualify URLs.

note that "+" is not the same as "%20", so make sure you are using the proper encoding for your context. they are not always interchangeable...

thank you for a reply. Could you explain more about:

DOM properties like window.location, a.href, script.src, etc, will handle this automatically, just like they fully qualify URLs.

Does it mean that i can do window.location = string with spaces and it will be ok?

var str = "something with spaces";
str = str.replace(/\s+/g,"%20");
window.location = str;

thank you for a reply. Could you explain more about:



Does it mean that i can do window.location = string with spaces and it will be ok?

probably

thank you