Render a link field that has a url with query params as a query param (version 7.2)

Question

I'm trying to render a link like the following as an external link - however it's cutting off part of the query parameter.

So when I try to render this:

https://www.example.com?url=http://www.another-url.com/?id=1

The href attribute will show as this:

https://www.example.com?url=http://www.another-url.com/

It basically slices at the point where a query string is specified in the query parameter.

Is this a known issue in 7.2 and is there a workaround without resorting to javacript? I've tried url encoding the question mark and the result is the same.

Thanks

Answer 1

The vanilla Sitecore code to render a General Link field containing this external Url would be:

LinkField lf = myitem.Fields["name of your field"];
string url = lf.GetFriendlyUrl();

You should verify this behaviour. It will either work as you expect, or it will be a bug in Sitecore. The string url should be exactly as given as value in the Sitecore client.

If it looks like you expect, your issue would be either in Glass - or on how you later pass that url on. E.g. returning it to a view but NOT inside a HtmlString or so.