Re: strange IE 4.0

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16051
interpreted = N
texte = It looks like MSIE is interpreting the § portion of your URL as the § character entity (that's the section symbol you're seeing). Apparently, the browser is lax about requiring the closing semicolon, and hence your problem. Renaming section should fix this.-Dave >Date: 16 Feb 1998 11:49:12 -0800 >From: Simon Buchanan >Subject: strange IE 4.0 > >Wonder if any of you have come upon this before - IE4.0 for Win95/NT (and >only that version/platform) truncates the URL in the browser. > >This is the URL: >http://www.zones.co.nz/maczone/foyer[H].tmpl$showcart?shift=l§ion=cdrom& >db=maczone.db&cart=123456789 > >Any idea why this would be doing this? (its putting a strange key into the >URL - for mac users it is option-6 where the * is) >http://www.zones.co.nz/maczone/foyer[H].tmpl$showcart?shift=l*ion=cdrom&db=m >aczone.db&cart=29705498662581 > >??? >Weird MS stuff. >_________________________________________________________________ >Simon Buchanan, Web-Admin, Multiple Zones NZ Ltd (MacZone/PCZone) >mailto:webadmin@webzone.net.nz http://www.zones.co.nz >hotline://hotline.zones.co.nz chat-handle:GREMin >_________________________________________________________________o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: strange IE 4.0 (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  2. strange IE 4.0 (Simon Buchanan 1998)
It looks like MSIE is interpreting the § portion of your URL as the § character entity (that's the section symbol you're seeing). Apparently, the browser is lax about requiring the closing semicolon, and hence your problem. Renaming section should fix this.-Dave >Date: 16 Feb 1998 11:49:12 -0800 >From: Simon Buchanan >Subject: strange IE 4.0 > >Wonder if any of you have come upon this before - IE4.0 for Win95/NT (and >only that version/platform) truncates the URL in the browser. > >This is the URL: >http://www.zones.co.nz/maczone/foyer[H].tmpl$showcart?shift=l§ion=cdrom& >db=maczone.db&cart=123456789 > >Any idea why this would be doing this? (its putting a strange key into the >URL - for mac users it is option-6 where the * is) >http://www.zones.co.nz/maczone/foyer[H].tmpl$showcart?shift=l*ion=cdrom&db=m >aczone.db&cart=29705498662581 > >??? >Weird MS stuff. >_________________________________________________________________ >Simon Buchanan, Web-Admin, Multiple Zones NZ Ltd (MacZone/PCZone) >mailto:webadmin@webzone.net.nz http://www.zones.co.nz >hotline://hotline.zones.co.nz chat-handle:GREMin >_________________________________________________________________o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Dave MacLeay

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