Can't create link in confluence

[Raju KC]

I can't create link in confluence to the following location due to characters [] .

http://www.abctest.com/knowledge-base/welcome.html?tw[hid]=17

Any idea ?

[MatthewC · Accepted solution]

Try escaping the '[' and ']' characters. If you use the editor, it should do this for you anyway.

http://www.abctest.com/knowledge-base/welcome.html?tw%5Bhid%5D=17

if you want more info, here is a reference:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

[Raju KC]

Which editor converts that??

[MatthewC]

the Confluence editor.... if you go "Insert menu > Link" and paste your link into the Address field, the editor should auto-escape it for you

[Raju KC]

My editor does not auto-escape. which version of confluence are you using?

[MatthewC]

just tried in 4.2.13 and 3.5.17, both appeared to do the same...

Doh! I just worked out what it is!

I'm just doing a right click on your URL in the question above, copy shortcut and pasting it in to the editor. The URL has already been escaped by Answers & I'm just picking it up

Sorry, you have to do it manually.

[Raju KC]

Are there any macros or plugins that can do without encoding the url?

We have to use "[]" instead of ASCII value.

[MatthewC]

Not sure I understand... %5D and %5B are the same codes as [ and ]. The web application on the end should be able to decode this quite happily.

if for some reason it can't... then I'd use HTML macro or write a small user macro to dump out the HTML directly

[Raju KC]

Do you have any reference why [] is not working in confluence?

[MatthewC]

I'd day that it's because the '[' character is a trigger for a link to be inserted. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Autocomplete