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confused

3:14 am on May 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Does IE notlike a URL conating %3d for = and % 26 for &. It gets encoded finebut I never get to the site unless i manually change it to = and & in the address bar?

Yidaki

5:56 am on May 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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It would work if you would encode the urls using entities [w3.org] instead of hexadecimal since IE obviously has problems to decode hex:

= -> "="
& -> "&"
or as a named entitiy:
& -> "&"

Reserved & Unsafe characters: url encoding [webclass.csuchico.edu]
ISO 8859-1 character set overview [htmlhelp.com]