FrontPage 2003 dies on HTML pages that have special characters in

[TheDelphiGuru]

Solveable? Unknown? Two Issues with FrontPage2003...

One is that if the internet connection temporarily dies then FP locks up and
stops downloading -- could retry every minute or so during a failure. (easy
to fix)

I was downloading delphi.about.com so I would have it locally, and one of
the folders had a mess of characters with a \ in it prior to the .htm suffix.
Naturally it died because it could not create the directory due to all of
the extraneous file namage.

Unless you can make ALL special characters that CAN appear in a URL
allowable as folder names (OS Change [hard to do]), or run a conversion path
when creating and looking for folders (much easier), or totally do away with
folders altogether (doesn't make much sense), delphi.about.com will CONTINUE
to abort when downloading, as will all other sites that circumvent naming
conventions.

Don't want anyone to download your site and render FP ineffective??? Simply
use characters and the '\' character to create folders and FP will crash!
(its download).

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you have FTP access to the site, then you could download the entire site.

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[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

that would be a humongous undertaking..delphi.about.com is a huge collection
of forums...if it's the same delphi about that i have forums on.


| If you have FTP access to the site, then you could download the entire
site.
|
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| ==============================================
| Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| ==============================================
| If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
| a Service Pack or security update, please contact
| Microsoft Product Support Services:
| http://support.microsoft.com
| If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
| security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
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|
| | > Solveable? Unknown? Two Issues with FrontPage2003...
| >
| > One is that if the internet connection temporarily dies then FP locks up
and
| > stops downloading -- could retry every minute or so during a failure.
(easy
| > to fix)
| >
| > I was downloading delphi.about.com so I would have it locally, and one
of
| > the folders had a mess of characters with a \ in it prior to the .htm
suffix.
| > Naturally it died because it could not create the directory due to all
of
| > the extraneous file namage.
| >
| > Unless you can make ALL special characters that CAN appear in a URL
| > allowable as folder names (OS Change [hard to do]), or run a conversion
path
| > when creating and looking for folders (much easier), or totally do away
with
| > folders altogether (doesn't make much sense), delphi.about.com will
CONTINUE
| > to abort when downloading, as will all other sites that circumvent
naming
| > conventions.
| >
| > Don't want anyone to download your site and render FP ineffective???
Simply
| > use characters and the '\' character to create folders and FP will
crash!
| > (its download).
| >
| > ----------------
| > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
| > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
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| > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
| > click "I Agree" in the message pane.
| >
| >
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|
|

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

A \ is not a valid character within a folder name (URL)
- it is reserved as a delimiter for folders

And FP does not support any files starting w/ a .
as in .htm which is what it would parse if it saw:
http://someweb.com/somefile/somebad\folder\.htm

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| Solveable? Unknown? Two Issues with FrontPage2003...
|
| One is that if the internet connection temporarily dies then FP locks up and
| stops downloading -- could retry every minute or so during a failure. (easy
| to fix)
|
| I was downloading delphi.about.com so I would have it locally, and one of
| the folders had a mess of characters with a \ in it prior to the .htm suffix.
| Naturally it died because it could not create the directory due to all of
| the extraneous file namage.
|
| Unless you can make ALL special characters that CAN appear in a URL
| allowable as folder names (OS Change [hard to do]), or run a conversion path
| when creating and looking for folders (much easier), or totally do away with
| folders altogether (doesn't make much sense), delphi.about.com will CONTINUE
| to abort when downloading, as will all other sites that circumvent naming
| conventions.
|
| Don't want anyone to download your site and render FP ineffective??? Simply
| use characters and the '\' character to create folders and FP will crash!
| (its download).
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
| Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
| link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
| click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...04c&dg=microsoft.public.frontpage.programming