I am trying to add my weblink which has a white space, that is, %20 in it. When I add a website URL in a LinkedIn profile using the edit option, it shows no error. But when I click the link in my profile, it shows "Link Error".
I noticed the "%20" in the URL is replaced by "+".
How do I fix this problem?
Best Answer
You would need to encode the encoded space - effectively, it looks like the LinkedIn.com website is unencoding the %20 to an actual space, which it then runs through a verification check which fails, as spaces in URLs are not supported.
So if you want to have a site with a URL like:
http://www.example.com/?id=this%20rocksYou'd need to enter:
http://www.example.com/?id=this%2520rocksWhere you have encoded the ampersand of
%20into the encoding for ampersand, which is%25. Essentially you are double-encoding the URL.