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Did webdav url format changed in Web 8.5? When I am calling folder.LocationInfo.WebDavUrl API the below output it is returning

/webdav/300%20ABC%20Content%20%28UK%20EN%29/Building%20Blocks/Content/ABC%20TPL%20Content/Qualifications

When I tried with 2013 Core service url it used to return

/webdav/300%20ABC%20Content%20(UK%20EN)/Building%20Blocks/Content/ABC%20TPL%20Content/Qualifications

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I don't think anything specific to Webbdav url is changed in Web 8.5. Probably underlying framework is handling url encoding a bit differently. If you do Url decoding of both Webbdav paths, you would see two identical strings.

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  • I also recall, during a recent upgrade, that we had some questions on encoding in other areas so I agree that it looks like the underlying framework was changed (perhaps to catch additional characters).
    – Dylan .. Mark Saunders
    Commented Jun 11, 2019 at 7:12
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    That is correct, behavior of Uri.EscapeDataString(urlString) method was changed in .NET Framework 4.6.2. See more details in section ".NET method Uri.EscapeDataString(urlString) has changed behavior" in the release notes: docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20Tridion%20Sites-v1/…
    – AntonM
    Commented Jun 11, 2019 at 12:49
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Yes.

I see these encoded in my test system also. From what I understand of WebDAV, encoding these shouldn't cause an issue. I presume both values function the same?

UPDATE: I understand that parenthesis' are classified as sub-delimiters (W3C) so I wonder if they need to be treated differently as part of a URL as with being part of a set of URL Parameters.

Point taken on the pain of doing a direct comparison of file content post upgrade during a file comparison - I guess you'd have to change you checker to account for specific (non-impacting) encoding differences.

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  • Agree with you Shahid, Those will fail if we try to do string compare, same issue i have faced while migrating custom page from 2013 SP1, Thought it may be helpful so posted question.
    – Prasanna K Gollamudi
    Commented Jun 10, 2019 at 18:29

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