Railo server converts plus (+) to spaces

Question

Weird thing I noticed on my Railo server. All + characters I pass in the url are automatically converted to spaces when I cfdump or cfoutput them.

Any server setting to change so that a + will remain a +?

Answer 1

Railo is not converting the + characters to space - your browser is.

(If you run the exact same code on ColdFusion you will get the same behaviour.)

In URLs, + is a reserved character and needs to be encoded as %2B, and there are several other characters that require encoding too.

You can use the CFML function UrlEncodedFormat to encode text for use in a URL.