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

date posted 30th January 2004 14:54

Dan,
Thanks for replying, I should have explained it further. I am "URL
Encoding" it when launching a new window with the URL shown. The window that
opens URL decodes the values. However, at some point after sending the URL
to IIS, but before IIS returns the page, it has changed the %EF %BF (or
whatever) codes to %3F (code for question mark character). It may be to do
with the fact that the characters I'm sending in the url are vowels with
acute accents (both upper and lower) plus the euro symbol (as this site has
to handle Irish Language and Euro currency).
What's so strange is that it works perfectly on my WinXPPro SP1
+IIS6 system.

Hope someone can help!

Dave.

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Dave Boulden, Director. DA Media Limited
web: http://www.da-media.co.uk/
Tel: 01795 559456 Fax: 07092 011488


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Sent: 30 January 2004 15:13
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: IIS changes escaped characters in URL... HELP!!!


> 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.



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