encrypted youtube url is not working but working with '='

Question

I have tried to use the encrypted url in my web page https://www.youtube.com/embed/C0DPdy98e4c?autoplay%3D1 is not working.If I use '=' instead of %3D url is working well.what I did wrong in my url working url https://www.youtube.com/embed/C0DPdy98e4c?autoplay=1 is working fine

Answer 1

Use urldecode function of PHP in your script and put your url in the parameter. It will work.

urldecode("https://www.youtube.com/embed/C0DPdy98e4c?autoplay%3D1")

Answer 2

I had a similar problem .I solved it by using urlencode method from .net library for encoding and decoding via urldecode on the spot where i wanted to use it