ESRI doesn’t respond if there is any special character in search text.

[manishkumar2]

• Description:
• Searched with a text “#1 boston” with findAddressCandidates api with langCode=EN.
• ESRI returns error code 403.

• ESRI Call:

http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates?SingleLine=...

Response:

ArcGIS REST Framework

Home

Error: Services Directory has been disabled.
Code: 403

[JayantaPoddar]

Error: Services Directory has been disabled.
Code: 403

This error usually comes up when the REST directory is not accessible.

Are you able to make any successful query (even without special characters)?

How are you doing the query?

[manishkumar2]

Yes, If I remove the special character "#" it works.

http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates?SingleLine=... 

Response:

"candidates": [   {    "address": "Pho So 1 Boston",    "location": {     "x": -71.043648798999641,     "y": 42.163068841000495    },    "score": 95.5,    "attributes": {     "City": "Randolph",     "Region": "Massachusetts",     "Country": "USA",     "Postal": ""    },    "extent": {     "xmin": -71.048649999999995,     "ymin": 42.158068999999998,     "xmax": -71.038650000000004,     "ymax": 42.168069000000003    }   }  ]

[JayantaPoddar]

That's because there is no address with "#1 Boston" in World Geocode Service. Geocoded Addresses of USA are very precise and organized.

 When I tried "#1 Rajasthan", it returned an address.

[manishkumar2]

I tried with "#1 Rajasthan". I still got error.

http://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates?SingleLine=... 

Can you share the url, I will try..

[JayantaPoddar]

You are right. It doesn't work on webpage. It worked for me in Geocoding toolbar of ArcMap.

Replacing # with * works on webpage.