@txhighrisers
Please look into both suggestions in the below post:
https://test-discourse.kore.ai/t/url-copied-into-service-node-changes-when-colon-is-present/3100
Hope this helps. Personally, I find working with encodeURIComponent better.
https://test-discourse.kore.ai/t/service-node-passing-url-query-parameters-as-encoded/720/6