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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 July 2003 19:54, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 5:37 pm, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > However, what I was forgetting is that Interchange uses strokes > > ('slashes' if you prefer, but that sounds a bit violent to me) in the > > search string. > > Just replace each / with the hexadecimal equivalent %2F and the browser > will replace the slash. > e.g.: > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.codehelp.co.uk%2Findex.h >tml > > Standards: the best way to do things. > > :-) > > (i.e. the W3C way to use / in any query string is as %2F - that is probably > why Google balks at it. Similarly with : -> %3A.) Sorry, that was probably a bit unclear in my original email. Although it is indeed a "query string", it isn't passed in the normal "?variable=value" way, it's passed as a supposedly 'normal-looking' URL, eg. http://www.smssat.biz/scan/fi=products/sp=results_big_thumb/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=OtherReceivers/va=banner_image=/va=banner_text=.html?id=f8YyQGtr I'm not sure why they decided to do it like that. I dunno, I didn't design it guv ;-) But is there anything technically wrong with an URL like that? Cheers, Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Az5SeTVvFHAhe5cRAvQCAJ9QiNaD4f9qzQHPoWIFEywh2yEWZQCcCpRN kpjK6EP9OQIvvOPprXhveC0= =yiFS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.