Sitemap Generator Forum

Hi there.  We've been working to get XML Sitemaps automated and tuned so that we get the exact results that we're looking for; however, we're unable to determine why all URLs that include an "&" are being encoded as "&".

Here's a URL example that results in a bad request:
my.domain.com/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10370&item=1597404

The correct URL is:
my.domain.com/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10370&item=1597404


I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has ran into this issue and what was done to correct it.  Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Hello,

all links in sitemap are "urlencoded" according with sitemaps protocol: [ External links are visible to logged in users only ]

Per w3c, URL encoding for "&" is "%26", and in this case it's coding it like you would to put an & symbol into HTML code, which is incorrect for this use because it isn't usable by the browser in this format.

Reference: w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

That document is for *HTML URL Encoding*, which doesn't apply to xml sitemap.