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Posted by Wintermute (Member # 5) on 07-24-2003, 10:02 AM:
How do you post [url] links that contain the % symbol?
Posted by dr.steelix (Member # 2734) on 07-24-2003, 02:00 PM:
What exactly is the problem, I have tried to experiment with urls that contain a % character and there were no problems, maybe this problem doesn't occur when you preview the post, but that's unlikely.
Posted by Wintermute (Member # 5) on 07-24-2003, 02:17 PM:
Well, I tried to link my book recommendation to Froogle, and it kept displaying the tags and URL as plain text, instead of a hyperlink. This was both in the preview and the actual post. It was a long URL, and I don't know if the [URL] tag has a limit, so I tried a link to Amazon. This one worked fine, but then I noticed that it was even longer. I speculated as to why UBB would interpret one as plain text, and parse the tags correctly in the other case. The first thing I tried was deleting the % symbols from the Froogle URL, because the Amazon URL didn't have any. This resulted in a proper hyperlink - but to an incorrect URL.
That was the only change made, so it seemed to be relevant. Granted I was trying to be quick about it, so I didn't confirm the situation with other examples.
Yeah, look, I can reproduce it:
[url= http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22Blood+Meridian%22+-pretty&btnG=Froogle+Search&cat=196]Blood Meridian[/url]
Blood Meridian
Hmm. I also notice that somehow a space is getting inserted between the = and the http, despite the fact that I don't see one in the composition window. Maybe it's a Mozilla textarea bug - this has been a problem area for them since day 1. I'll see what happens in IE.
Posted by Wintermute (Member # 5) on 07-24-2003, 02:26 PM:
Ok, this from IE. It's not the %, it's the %22 specifically. It seems that UBB is processing it as the ".
[url= http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=%22Blood+Meridian%22+-pretty&btnG=Froogle+Search&cat=196]Blood Meridian[/url]
Blood Meridian
[url= http://test.com/%22]http://test.com/%22[/url]
http://test.com/%2
http://test.com/%20
[url= http://test.com/%222]http://test.com/%222[/url]
[url= http://test.com/"]http://test.com/"[/url]
[ 07-24-2003, 02:27 PM: Message edited by: Wintermute ]
Posted by dr.steelix (Member # 2734) on 07-24-2003, 02:38 PM:
Well apparently it doesn't happen because of '%' but because of "%22", I tried changing it to "%20" and it worked.
Edit: oh, nevermind. :---( !
[ 07-24-2003, 02:39 PM: Message edited by: dr.steelix ]
Posted by Mr. K (Member # 2) on 07-26-2003, 02:39 AM:
wut
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