evilfish wrote:
> would that be a Linux /Windoh's issue??
>>Never mind... I got it... we're back in business as usual... I had
>>forgotten to url encode a string... DOH!!!!
URL' s are "addresses" that everyone goes to such as
www.google.com.
You can only use certain characters in an URL... for example spaces are
an illegal character, you will never find a valid URL with a space in
it. In place of the space, or any other illegal character, you need to
put it's ascii number in hex preceded by a %. That's what is known as
urlencoding. So I was trying to send a big nastly long chuck of random
looking characters, and there was a small handful of characters that
wouldn't get sent right.
...you asked for it :)
Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek
PS, if any of you have ever been infected by spyware you might have
noticed that your browsers default page suddenly goes to a really weird
looking address that looks something like %23%65%ab%67....etc.etc. That
is just urlencoding taken to an extreme, where every single character is
encoded and not just the characters that won't get sent correctly.
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