Escaping square brackets in URLs?

[RetiredInNH]

I recently posted a link to:

[url=http://www.youthhostel.ch/hosteldetails.html?&L=1&user_hostels_pi1[bez]=BAD&cHash=9e82d7c97a]Youth Hostel Basel[/url]

which, due to the square brackets embedded in the URL (..[bez]..), turned out:

=BAD&cHash=9e82d7c97a]Youth Hostel Basel

Clicking on the link got to the target, but very inelegantly. Is there a vBulletin way of escaping square brackets?

[jrspet]

I fixed the link in your post ( youth hostel link )

[RetiredInNH]

Thanks!

I should have thought of it. I know that spaces are encoded %20 in URLs, and should have guessed that other characters have special encodings. led me to URL Encoding -- (or: 'What are those "%20" codes in URLs?').

You can see from jrspet's reply that the trick is to enclose the URL in quotes:

e.g [url="htpp://url-with-[square-brackets]-mumble"]title[/url]