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doio's avatar
doio
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

What’s this %2F& in the search result popup?

I did a search with keyword "google" and I found one of the search result a bit different from the other items.

The first item came with my username and a URL that didn't really show anywhere.

The website I used was "https://accounts.google.com/signin" and in the search result popup the URL seemed to be "google.com%2F&" something.
I know %2F was a "/" but where did "google.com/&" come from? I wonder if this extra URL comes from my OTP link?

Another question is why didn't you guys decode this character beforehand?

1Password Version: 80500008
Extension Version: Version 2.1.8
OS Version: Windows 11

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  • K_J__1P's avatar
    K_J__1P
    Icon for 1Password Team rank1Password Team
    4 years ago

    Hello doio! Hopefully we can figure this out together. In Quick Find, the URL being shown is the website for the item. This website can also be shown in the item details pane on the right.

    This might get a little technical, so if you have any additional questions, please ask!

    Most frequently, this URL matches the browser URL when the password was originally saved to 1Password. In this case, it appears from the screenshot to be part of the Google authentication flow. Quite frequently in authentication flows--including Google's--the browser will be redirected from the page a user would like to visit to a page for logging in. As part of the flow, the page to return to after logging in is encoded into the parameters of the URL. It appears that that's what happened here.

    You are correct that %2F is the URL encoded version of /. The & character is used for separating multiple parameters in a URL. google.com/ was the path encoded onto the URL and the & is marking the beginning of the next parameter. This can be confirmed by viewing the full URL. It is likely that this appears within it.

    Cheers!

    K.J.