Problem with url

ThatGirlAgain · Post by **ThatGirlAgain** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:05 am

A quote in the url screws things up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Mind

The Emperor's New Mind

But c/p the url into a browser tab and it works fine.

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:20 am

The solution is to encode the special characters.
A nice reference can be found at the W3Schools site.

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&#91;url=http&#58;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind&#93;Wikipedia&#58; The Emperor's New Mind&#91;/url&#93;

Wikipedia: The Emperor's New Mind

ThatGirlAgain · Post by **ThatGirlAgain** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:30 am

McCulloch wrote:The solution is to encode the special characters.
A nice reference can be found at the W3Schools site.
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&#91;url=http&#58;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind&#93;Wikipedia&#58; The Emperor's New Mind&#91;/url&#93;  
Wikipedia: The Emperor's New Mind

Like %20 for blanks. I was too lazy to look up single quote. tiny.cc is my friend.

Interesting that the 'naked' quote mark is acceptable in a browser but a blank is not, whereas bbcode requires the substitution.

Post by **otseng** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:36 am

OK, I think I fixed it. The code change wasn't too difficult. (But hopefully I didn't break anything else.)

ThatGirlAgain · Post by **ThatGirlAgain** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:39 am

otseng wrote:OK, I think I fixed it. The code change wasn't too difficult. (But hopefully I didn't break anything else.)

I looked at my OP again. All the links look good now.

Thank you.

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:08 am

ThatGirlAgain wrote: Interesting that the 'naked' quote mark is acceptable in a browser but a blank is not, whereas bbcode requires the substitution.

The modern browsers have had more developers and users to tweak this kind of stuff than phpBB.

ThatGirlAgain · Post by **ThatGirlAgain** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:21 am

McCulloch wrote:
ThatGirlAgain wrote: Interesting that the 'naked' quote mark is acceptable in a browser but a blank is not, whereas bbcode requires the substitution.

The modern browsers have had more developers and users to tweak this kind of stuff than phpBB.

And I am even using IE.