Jquery escaping URL in Cordova

Question

I'm running my Cordova app through the browser.

And when it needs to send an ajax request, it does so to a partially escaped URL.
http://192.168.8.100:3000/proxy/https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fpostqr

I have tried encoding the URI, tried serializing, yet the same behavior can be seen. The browser is Chrome running on Windows.

Code in question:

var url = "https://qz.com/postqr";
    var data = {payload:results,user:user};
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: url,
        data: data
    }).fail(function(data){
        console.log('ERROR SUBMITTING RES');
        console.log(data);
    }).done(function(data) {
                console.log('SUBMITTING RES');
console.log(data);
    });

```

Edit: the solutions provided on SO are not fixing the issue for me.

Possible duplicate of [URL Encode a string in jQuery for an AJAX request](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6544564/url-encode-a-string-in-jquery-for-an-ajax-request) — Script47, Jun 30 '16 at 15:10
Script47 - i tried suggestions from that page, and they did not work. I even mentioned it in the question. — Igor Q., Jun 30 '16 at 18:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '16 at 12:42

The issue is not programmatical, but rather in how Phonegap works.

The Phonegap Developer Programm has issues with connecting to outside hosts.

To resolve the issue - navigate to the folder of the project and type

phonegap serve

and everything will work just fine. Even with the special chars being escaped in the url.

Jquery escaping URL in Cordova

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