diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d3acaa4d..4d2bef63 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "gstreamer-video",
  "gtk-macros",
  "gtk4",
+ "html-escape",
  "html2pango",
  "image 0.23.14",
  "indexmap",
@@ -1970,6 +1971,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "digest 0.10.3",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "html-escape"
+version = "0.2.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b8e7479fa1ef38eb49fb6a42c426be515df2d063f06cb8efd3e50af073dbc26c"
+dependencies = [
+ "utf8-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "html2pango"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -4685,6 +4695,12 @@ version = "0.7.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8-width"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5190c9442dcdaf0ddd50f37420417d219ae5261bbf5db120d0f9bab996c9cba1"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "uuid"
 version = "0.8.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 07680938..9030b628 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ rqrr = "0.4.0"
 secular = { version = "1.0.1", features = ["bmp", "normalization"] }
 pulldown-cmark = "0.9.2"
 geo-uri = "0.2.0"
+html-escape = "0.2.11"
 
 [dependencies.sourceview]
 package = "sourceview5"
diff --git a/src/utils/mod.rs b/src/utils/mod.rs
index 5217b2d4..30ebcb64 100644
--- a/src/utils/mod.rs
+++ b/src/utils/mod.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pub mod media;
 pub mod sourceview;
 pub mod template_callbacks;
 
-use std::{collections::HashMap, path::PathBuf};
+use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 use futures::{
     future::{self, Either, Future},
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ use matrix_sdk::ruma::{EventId, OwnedEventId, OwnedTransactionId, TransactionId,
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use regex::Regex;
 use ruma::{
-    exports::percent_encoding::percent_decode_str, matrix_uri::MatrixId, serde::urlencoded,
-    IdParseError, MatrixIdError, MatrixToError, OwnedServerName, RoomAliasId, RoomId, ServerName,
-    UserId,
+    exports::percent_encoding::percent_decode_str, matrix_uri::MatrixId, IdParseError,
+    MatrixIdError, MatrixToError, OwnedServerName, RoomAliasId, RoomId, ServerName, UserId,
 };
+use url::form_urlencoded;
 
 /// Returns an expression that is the and’ed result of the given boolean
 /// expressions.
@@ -285,10 +285,9 @@ pub fn parse_matrix_to_uri(uri: &str) -> Result<(MatrixId, Vec<OwnedServerName>)
     let via = parts
         .next()
         .map(|query| {
-            let query_parts = urlencoded::from_str::<HashMap<String, String>>(query)
-                .or(Err(MatrixToError::InvalidUrl))?;
+            let query = html_escape::decode_html_entities(query);
+            let query_parts = form_urlencoded::parse(query.as_bytes());
             query_parts
-                .into_iter()
                 .filter_map(|(key, value)| (key == "via").then(|| ServerName::parse(&value)))
                 .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()
         })