Re: really wierd browser truncating

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12640
interpreted = N
texte = >The browser is supposed to leave everything after the ? alone. I've never >seen it truncate stuff in the URL parameters. I regularly access >databases outside the template's folder, but I often use a full path >starting with /.That's what freaked me out! The source ACCORDING to the browser was right. Only when clicking on the link did it truncate when it actually called for the page to be created. This was consistent ACROSS platforms and on both Netscape and Explorer. Wierd stuff.The box is multihomed and the site I was testing had a root INSIDE of the wwwroot folder in IIS. So, putting a / would not make it back to wwwroot but rather the subdirectory that the IP was addressed to. But...why would the browser truncate?Aloha,Olin..................................................................... W O R L D P O I N T I N T E R A C T I V E OLIN KEALOHA LAGON director, website creation Honolulu San Francisco 2800 woodlawn drive 222 sutter street olin@worldpoint.com suite 170 sixth floor www.worldpoint.com honolulu, hi 96822 san francisco, ca 94108 voice.808.539.3978 fax.808.539.3943 cell.808.291.1610 ..................................................................... Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: really wierd browser truncating (Olin 1997)
  2. Re: really wierd browser truncating (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  3. really wierd browser truncating (Olin 1997)
>The browser is supposed to leave everything after the ? alone. I've never >seen it truncate stuff in the URL parameters. I regularly access >databases outside the template's folder, but I often use a full path >starting with /.That's what freaked me out! The source ACCORDING to the browser was right. Only when clicking on the link did it truncate when it actually called for the page to be created. This was consistent ACROSS platforms and on both Netscape and Explorer. Wierd stuff.The box is multihomed and the site I was testing had a root INSIDE of the wwwroot folder in IIS. So, putting a / would not make it back to wwwroot but rather the subdirectory that the IP was addressed to. But...why would the browser truncate?Aloha,Olin..................................................................... W O R L D P O I N T I N T E R A C T I V E OLIN KEALOHA LAGON director, website creation Honolulu San Francisco 2800 woodlawn drive 222 sutter street olin@worldpoint.com suite 170 sixth floor www.worldpoint.com honolulu, hi 96822 san francisco, ca 94108 voice.808.539.3978 fax.808.539.3943 cell.808.291.1610 ..................................................................... Olin

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