RE: URL too Long?

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 13106
interpreted = N
texte = Tim ->Is ther a charater limit for the amount of info. you can pass through a url>statement?>Is it an html limit, or a WebCat acgi limit?>All I want to do is pass the title of a product through to the>fullfilment.txt file and the ViewOrder.tmpl file.>This code will work as a form:[...]>This code will not work, but I want it to work. Why is this? What I mean by>not working is that it will cut off part of the title information. Example :>title=The Big Red Wagon, will be placed into the shoppingcart file as>The.>href=ShoppingCart.tmpl$add?db=arkin.txt&cart=[cart]&sku=[sku]&textA=[title]>>Add to CartThis is a common problem with URLs - you can't have spaces in a URL, as nearly all browsers will just cut off the URL at the first space. The fix is very simple - just use a [url] context around whatever is giving you a problem (like...&sku=[sku]&textA=[url][title][/url]...), which will encode all special characters (' ' becomes '%20'), allowing them to be sent in a URL with no problems.Special characters in your form will be automatically encoded by the browser, which is why it was working when the hyperlink was not.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: URL too Long? (Marc Eagle 1997)

Tim ->Is ther a charater limit for the amount of info. you can pass through a url>statement?>Is it an html limit, or a WebCat acgi limit?>All I want to do is pass the title of a product through to the>fullfilment.txt file and the ViewOrder.tmpl file.>This code will work as a form:[...]>This code will not work, but I want it to work. Why is this? What I mean by>not working is that it will cut off part of the title information. Example :>title=The Big Red Wagon, will be placed into the shoppingcart file as>The.>href=ShoppingCart.tmpl$add?db=arkin.txt&cart=[cart]&sku=[sku]&textA=[title]>>Add to CartThis is a common problem with URLs - you can't have spaces in a URL, as nearly all browsers will just cut off the URL at the first space. The fix is very simple - just use a [url] context around whatever is giving you a problem (like...&sku=[sku]&textA=[url][title][/url]...), which will encode all special characters (' ' becomes '%20'), allowing them to be sent in a URL with no problems.Special characters in your form will be automatically encoded by the browser, which is why it was working when the hyperlink was not.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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RE: URL too Long?

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