[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25567: Nav menus strip out square brackets in url's

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#25567: Nav menus strip out square brackets in url's
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 Reporter:  frisco        |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Menus         |    Version:  3.6.1
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Similar to [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24663/ trac ticket
 24663] or [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16859 trac ticket 16859],
 nav menus strip out square brackets in URL's, starting with line 390 of
 wp-includes/nav-menu.php, because of esc_raw_url().  Behavior exists in
 trunk as well as 3.6.1.

 Square brackets in URL's are needed for query parameters with Elastic
 Search, and it's helpful to put these pre-built queries into menus.  There
 are probably other use cases as well.  The brackets can be encoded, which
 works fine, but should average users be expected to encode menu URL's?

 Is there another way to safely use URL's without stripping square
 brackets?

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