Re: FN-FORUM: IIS changes escaped characters in URL... HELP!!!

date posted 30th January 2004 14:25

> I have developed a system on WinXPPro SP1 running IIS6, which has now been
> deployed on Win2000 SP4 running IIS5. On my system, I can send escaped
> values in the URL and the target page gets them intact. On the Win2k
machine
> they are translated to %3F characters. The URL I was using is:
>
http://172.20.100.5/adsonline/iijustifyad.cfm?wait=Y&ad=dave&head=&sub=&body
> =%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD&foot=&bw=0&sty=IILIN1-X

Could you URL decode it, using the function here:

http://www.aspnut.com/reference/encoding.asp

Dunno if I understand the problem or not, but what the hell :)

hth
Dan.