Hi Dorian, Thanks for information. I'll pass that to the engineering team.
Best, Thanet, AdWords API Team On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 4:50:47 PM UTC+9, Dorian Kind wrote: > > Hi Thanet, > > thanks for getting back! I actually didn't use a tracking template in the > example for which I provided a screenshot. But I recreated a similar one > below, this time including a tracking template: > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NjKoJzL2_1c/V06SR9GmYbI/AAAAAAAAAho/a7qxL8O6x4oMRdHYskoxoxenOTAFHemiACLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-06-01%2Bat%2B09.43.48.png> > > > I think what's most notable is that the question mark, the ampersand and > the percent sign are not being escaped and could make the query string > unparsable for some web servers. Also, if a custom parameter contains a > pound sign, everything after it will be considered a fragment and not used > for the click URL. Like I mentioned before, we URL-encode all custom > parameters before sending them to the API, so it's not a problem for us. > But it might be helpful if the behavior was documented. > > > Thanks again and best regards, > > Dorian > > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 7:35:54 PM UTC+2, Thanet Knack Praneenararat > (AdWords API Team) wrote: >> >> Hello Dorian, >> >> Sorry for the delay. >> Could you please share your tracking template too, apart from the final >> URL and custom parameters in the below image? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Best, >> Thanet, AdWords API Team >> >> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 9:43:11 PM UTC+9, Dorian Kind wrote: >>> >>> Hi Thanet, >>> >>> I'm not sure if that's correct. To me it seems that there's clearly some >>> percent-encoding going on: >>> >>> >>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wNo6ACqGiCo/VzR58LQ-4UI/AAAAAAAAAgw/zHkDzp3Cb_QPM8w_vhDsps4vxWXhSMIMQCLcB/s1600/escaping.png> >>> >>> >>> Or am I misunderstanding you? >>> >>> >>> Thanks & cheers, >>> >>> Dorian >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 8:03:28 AM UTC+2, Thanet Knack >>> Praneenararat (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Dorian, >>>> >>>> For custom parameters, if they're used in a final URL and the final URL >>>> is used in tracking template then they're escaped with final URL >>>> So the list of escaped char depends on if {lpurl} or {escapedlpurl} is >>>> used. >>>> >>>> If they're used directly in the tracking template, they're not escaped. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Thanet, AdWords API Team >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 1:55:01 AM UTC+9, Dorian Kind wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Shwetha, >>>>> >>>>> thanks for your quick reply. I'm afraid the ValueTrack documentation >>>>> isn't of much help, though. What I'm observing is that custom parameters >>>>> are neither being handled "as per standard URL specifications" (as >>>>> not all reserved characters are escaped) nor does the escaping for >>>>> {lpurl} >>>>> apply (as the character { is being percent-encoded, for example). >>>>> Actually we're just going to do all URL-encoding on our end so it's >>>>> not really relevant, but I'm still curious about what the exact behavior >>>>> is. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Dorian >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 6:45:47 PM UTC+2, Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords >>>>> API Team) wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Dorian, >>>>>> >>>>>> You can use this document >>>>>> <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6305348#urlinsertion> as >>>>>> a reference for ValueTrack parameters. The characters which are escaped >>>>>> depends on what variant of the ValueTrack parameter you are using. For >>>>>> example, the {lpurl} is the landing page url escaped as per standard >>>>>> URL specifications. The characters being escaped also depends on the >>>>>> position of the parameter in the tracking template. If {lpurl} is >>>>>> not at the beginning of your tracking template, it escapes the single >>>>>> quote >>>>>> character along with the characters ?,=,",#,\t, and [space]. >>>>>> >>>>>> I hope this helps. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Shwetha, AdWords API Team. >>>>>> >>>>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/7d978fd4-08c9-49c4-a218-57bf1e00407b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
