How to handle email address with + symbol in URI

[jonathanredford]

My app needs to access email address pass to it via the url query string.

In some case, a + will be present on the left side of the @ however when accessing the query object either via the context in a server handler or next/router on the client side, the + is always replaced with a space.

Not sure if this is a bug or not so figured I'd post here before creating an issue to get some feedback from the community.

[oshanfernando]

'+' sign is decoded back to a space in a query string. So before you add the email to the query string, encode and then attach to preserve the special character.

Ex: "localhost:3000?email=" + encodeURIComponent('[email protected]')