davis / backbone-router-test

a test repo to show that %20s are being turned into spaces when using Router#navigate

Purpose

This repo was created to demonstrate a bug/weird behavior of Backbone.Router#navigate.

Test case

var Backbone = require('backbone');

var router = new Backbone.Router();
Backbone.history.start();

router.navigate('space%20space');

Expected result

Url looks something like http://localhost:3000/space%20space

Actual result

Url looks like http://localhost:3000/space space

Why this is a problem

This breaks URLs when copy pasting them, etc, and in general is inconsistent behavior, because none of the other URLencoded chars get decoded.

How to see it for yourself

git clone [e-mail]:davis/backbone-router-test.git
cd backbone-router-test
open index.html