Escaping ampersand in URL

Question

I am trying to send a GET message that contains strings with ampersands and can\'t figure how to escape the ampersand in the URL.

Example:

http://www         


        

Answer 1

They need to be percent-encoded:

> encodeURIComponent('&')
"%26"

So in your case, the URL would look like:

http://www.mysite.com?candy_name=M%26M