Redirect an odd format url

Question

I'm trying to get my page to redirect me to another page but the URL is in an odd format.
This is what it looks like:

url =http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/geocodeAddresses?addresses={"records":[{"attributes":{"OBJECTID":1,"SingleLine":"380 New York St., Redlands, CA, 92373",}},{"attributes":{"OBJECTID":2,"SingleLine":"1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90045",}}]}&sourceCountry=USA&token=&f=pjson.

I'm guessing I have to parse it somehow but I do not know how.

[`escape`](http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_escape.asp) the url and set `window.location` to that value. — Vikram Deshmukh, Aug 05 '14 at 17:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

You have to encode each URL query string parameter using encodeURIComponent (al least the dynamic ones):

window.location.href = 'http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/geocodeAddresses?addresses=' + encodeURIComponent('{"records":[{"attributes":{"OBJECTID":1,"SingleLine":"380 New York St., Redlands, CA, 92373",}},{"attributes":{"OBJECTID":2,"SingleLine":"1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90045",}}]}') + '&sourceCountry=USA&token=&f=pjson';

further reading: Encode URL in JavaScript?

Redirect an odd format url

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