I would like to use Chrome's keyword search omnibox functionality to search a website which is not available to the public. When you type a search term with spaces in it in the website, the URL that gets produced looks like this:
https://example.com/default.aspx?view=slg/search#txt=My%20search%20%with%20spaces
Unfortunately when I type a search using the keyword in Chrome's omnibox, I get this:
https://example.com/default.aspx?view=slg/search#txt=My+search+with+spaces
Previous questions of Super User have had the opposite occur. That is the omnibox has converted their spaces to a %20 instead of a +. This answer indicates that chrome guesses which to use. Does anyone know of a way to hint to Chrome that it should use a %20 instead of a +?
Best Answer
I never found a way to do this, so I ended up writing an open source extension for Chrome. I'll warn you, it is hard coded to the
https://privatewebsite.com/, so you won't be able to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V it for your needs, but it is available under the MIT license for you to use as necessary.I think the most important aspect of what I did was to use the
encodeURIComponent(searchText)javascript function to get the%20's I needed.