Question

I’m trying to remove the URI encoding from a link, but decodeURI doesn’t seem to be fully working.

My example link is this: /linkout?remoteUrl=http%253a%252f%252fsandbox.yoyogames.com%252fgames%252f171985-h-a-m-heroic-armies-marching

After running the JavaScript script, it looks like this:

http%3a%2f%2fsandbox.yoyogames.com%2fgames%2f171985-h-a-m-heroic-armies-marching

How can I get rid of the remaining not correct codes in the URI?

My decoding code:

var href = $(this).attr('href');            // get the href
var href = decodeURI(href.substring(19));   // remove the outgoing part and remove the escaping
$(this).attr('href', 'http://'+href)        // change link on page

Answer 1

the url looks as it was encoded twice, I also suggest to use decodeURIComponent

decodeURIComponent(decodeURIComponent("http%253a%252f%252fsandbox.yoyogames.com%252fgames%252f171985-h-a-m-heroic-armies-marching"))

results in:
“http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/171985-h-a-m-heroic-armies-marching”

but you should check why you have the url encoded twice in advance