Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#25567 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
Nav menus strip out square brackets in url's
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 3.6.1 |
| Component: | Menus | Keywords: | |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
Similar to trac ticket #24663 or trac ticket #16859, nav menus strip out square brackets in URL's, starting with line 390 of wp-includes/nav-menu.php, because of esc_raw_url(). Behavior exists in trunk as well as 3.6.1.
Square brackets in URL's are needed for query parameters with Elastic Search, and it's helpful to put these pre-built queries into menus. There are probably other use cases as well. The brackets can be encoded, which works fine, but should average users be expected to encode menu URL's?
Is there another way to safely use URL's without stripping square brackets?
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Hello frisco,
you're right, square brackets are stripped out. The issue exists in
esc_url()and therefore we have the ticket #16859. So let's focus the discussion on this ticket. (I just tested the latest patch on #16859 and can confirm, that it fixes your mentioned issue.)