Visualforce rerender encoding { and } in firefox

Question

When trying to rerender a pageBlockSection with an image tag inside to pick up a new src url from the controller, chrome works just fine but Firefox is encoding the { and the }. Is there any way to stop Firefox from doing that?

NOTE: The brackets are in the url for the image. Yes, this is not normal but it is how Scene7 is set up.

NOTE 2: Oh shoot, I didn't proofread and put escape when I meant encode. The brackets are getting encoded for urls, scenes 7 is choking on that.

Answer 1

You have to encode your url.

• { ==> %7B
• } ==> %7D

Sample :

• url decoded: http://site.com?paramerer={value}
• url params encoded: http://site.com?paramerer=%7Bvalue%7D

Try manually using this: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

Also, you could use this function: {!URLENCODE('{value}')}

Answer 2

Because I needed the unencoded values in the url and salesforce was (rightfully) encoding it, I used javascript to change the url and replace the encoded brackets with the brackets themselves.