window.open with url variables

Hello,

i have this code:

echo “<script type=’text/javascript’>openWindow(‘”.$adress.”‘)</script>”;

the $adress send an url with variables like “xpto.com?var=1&varB=2”

Problem is that using window.open always encodes & character to &amp; and the url doesn’t open. I have tried many functions but still doesn’t work.

I have this javascript code:

function convert(str)
{
str = str.replace(/&amp;/g,”&”);
//alert(str);
return str;
}

function openWindow(adress)
{
//document.write(adress);

//endereco = convert(adress);

//unescape(url)
//decodeURI()
//decodeURIComponent()
//html_entity_decode();
//encoded.replace(/&/g, ‘&’);

newwindow=window.open( adress,’PROJECT’,’height=800,width=1000′);

if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}
return false;

}

The convert function doesn’t do anything. the commented javascript functions like unescape, etc also doesn’t work. If i do alert(adress) it converts & to &amp; but if i do document.write(adress); it shows correctly. So i assume that some functions encode and others don’t. Meaning that window.open encode by default. It there a way to override this?

Thanks for the attention.

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