diff --git a/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.html b/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.html
index da1c8be4b..473877cba 100644
--- a/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.html
+++ b/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.html
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ If you click on it while browsing, the currently viewed website will be inserted
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-	<td><a href="javascript:w = window.open('http://#[host]#:#[port]#/QuickCrawlLink_p.html?localIndexing=on&amp;crawlingQ=on&amp;xdstopw=on&amp;title='+escape(document.title)+'&amp;url='+location.href,'_blank','height=150,width=500,resizable=yes,scrollbar=no,directory=no,menubar=no,location=no');w.focus();"><img src="/env/grafics/addlink.gif" border="0">&nbsp;Crawl with YaCy</a></td>
+	<td><a href="javascript:w = window.open('http://#[host]#:#[port]#/QuickCrawlLink_p.html?localIndexing=on&amp;crawlingQ=on&amp;xdstopw=on&amp;title='+escape(document.title)+'&amp;url='+escape(location.href),'_blank','height=150,width=500,resizable=yes,scrollbar=no,directory=no,menubar=no,location=no');w.focus();"><img src="/env/grafics/addlink.gif" border="0">&nbsp;Crawl with YaCy</a></td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 
diff --git a/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.java b/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.java
index c4952d4a8..1d4ff307a 100644
--- a/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.java
+++ b/htroot/QuickCrawlLink_p.java
@@ -48,8 +48,10 @@
 //if the shell's current path is HTROOT
 
 
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.util.Date;
 
 import de.anomic.htmlFilter.htmlFilterContentScraper;
@@ -99,6 +101,12 @@ public class QuickCrawlLink_p {
         
         // getting the URL
         String crawlingStart = post.get("url",null);
+        try {
+            crawlingStart = URLDecoder.decode(crawlingStart, "UTF-8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
+            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
+            e1.printStackTrace();
+        }
         
         // getting the browser title
         String title = post.get("title",null);