What is the recommended way to pass urls as url parameters?

encodeURIComponent() should work. For example,

'&url=" + encodeURIComponent("http://a.com/?q=query&n=10")

produces

"&url=http%3A%2F%2Fa.com%2F%3Fq%3Dquery%26n%3D10"

(which doesn”t have any & or ? in the value).
When your server gets this url, it should be able to decode that to get the original:

param["url"] = "http://a.com/?q=query&n=10"

I’m not sure what server you’re using (e.g. Rails, Django, …) but that should work “out of the box” on any normal system.

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