Semicolons in URLs

Poster: bobbitt
Dated: Thursday March 12 2009 - 15:55:29 GMT

Hi all,

I've hit a minor snag with the DHTML menu. Some of the URLs I want to use have a ; in them, which of course causes the menu to think a new attribute is being passed in. I found the solution and wanted to post in in case others are also struggling with this. Simply replace the ; with %3B in the URL.

So for example:

http://Domain.com/forums/index.php?action=pm;sa=send

becomes:

http://Domain.com/forums/index.php?action=pm%3Bsa=send

Hope that helps

Cheers
Mike

Re: Semicolons in URLs

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday March 12 2009 - 16:02:41 GMT

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your post.

There is another way, just surround the url in backquotes, like this:

aI("text=test;url=`http://Domain.com/forums/index.php?action=pm;sa=send`");

This way the menu will know not to parse the semi colon in the url

-- Andy

Re: Semicolons in URLs

Poster: bobbitt
Dated: Thursday March 12 2009 - 19:28:59 GMT

Good to know, thanks Andy!