Initial URL does not get encoded

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My flow was working without an error before i updated pad to the latest version.

I was passing a url in "Launch new chrome" action, like this

"https://xxxxxx.com/custom/service/webapi/rest.php?input_type=JSON&response_type=JSON&method=login&rest_data={"user_auth":{"user_name":"xxxx","password":"xxxx"}}"

Now, when the chrome window opens up, the url does not have any double quote (") characters and my url is not working.

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To encode the double quote symbol, you should replace it with %22

That's the standard procedure. However, PAD will throw a syntax error at that because it uses % for variable notation. You need to escape it by doing %% instead of %. So, the correct way would be to replace every double quote symbol with %%22

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Thanks for the answer.

I already tried that but i got the same results. The weird thing is that other characters like ' or space are getting encoded.

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Have you tried using Run application to run Chrome and passing the URL as the parameter? You can then use Launch new Chrome afterwards, but make it attach to an already running instance, instead of launching a new one. This way you will get a browser instance and still be able to proceed with further UI actions.

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I used Run Application and passed the URL with encoded characters and it worked. If i don't encode the characters is not working but anyway, problem is solved.

Do you think that MS is going to fix that? I'm asking because it worked in previous versions.

Thanks a lot for your help.

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They might fix it, if they get people raising bug reports to their support. I generally always use Run application in my flows to launch a browser, because this works better than launching a new browser. The Launch new Chrome action tends to fail sometimes if the extension doesn't load properly. But Run application never fails because of that.

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