Frontpage Problem With Special URL Characters

[Rui Ferreira]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with Frontpage when i need to specify a URL like:

http://rep.bancobpi.pt/bpicampanhas/redirect.asp?REF={E0EC11AD-221D-49E7-A082-97554BFC5C1E}&OP=50&URLR=http://www.bancobpi.pt/pagina.asp?s=1&a=4&f=307&26opt=f

The problem is that FrontPage e replacing '%26' for '&' and in this case,
the URL becomes invalid because it has parameters of parameters.

Is there a way to disable this feature?
How can i handle this situation?

Thanks.

Rui Ferreira.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

All characters except
A-Z
a-z
0-9
-
_
~
,
..
$
(
)
#
space

Are illegal, and will cause problems.
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| Hi,
|
| I'm having a problem with Frontpage when i need to specify a URL like:
|
|
http://rep.bancobpi.pt/bpicampanhas/redirect.asp?REF={E0EC11AD-221D-49E7-A082-97554BFC5C1E}&OP=50&URLR=http://www.bancobpi.pt/pagina.asp?s=1&a=4&f=307&26opt=f
|
| The problem is that FrontPage e replacing '%26' for '&' and in this case,
| the URL becomes invalid because it has parameters of parameters.
|
| Is there a way to disable this feature?
| How can i handle this situation?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Rui Ferreira.

 

[Jim Buyens]

Well, I tried constructing a simple link using the URL you cited, and I
couldn’t get FrontPage to corrupt it.

One thing I *did* notice, however, is that &26opt=f, near the end of your
URL, should be %26opt=f.

If that doesn’t resolve the problem, please post again and detail the exact
steps that lead to the failure.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
o--> Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site
Now!
o--> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
o--> Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
o--> Faster Smarter Beginning Programming

 

[Rui Ferreira]

Ok, i'll try to detail the problem:

Step 1: start from a blank page.
Step 2: in desing mode write 'sample word' and make a hyperlink on it.
Step 3: fill the field address with
'http://rep.bancobpi.pt/bpicampanhas/redirect.asp?REF={E0EC11AD-221D-49E7-A082-97554BFC5C1E}&OP=50&URLR=http://www.bancobpi.pt/pagina.asp?s=1&a=4&f=307&opt=f'

At this point, if you go to the code, you should see character '&' replacing
'%26'.
Im my case, this become a problem.

Best Regards,

Rui Ferreira.

 

[Ratatooie]

{ and } are not legal characters for URLs.

Are they represented by their % equivalent in the code?

 

[Jim Buyens]

It looks as though your options are to either:

o In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, type %25 where you want the percent
signs. For example, pagina.asp?s=1%2526a=4@2526f=307%2526opt=f

o Insert the href= string in Code view.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
o--> Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site
Now!
o--> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
o--> Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
o--> Faster Smarter Beginning Programming

 

[Rui Ferreira]

Ok, i know that options.
But, first option works only on insert operation. When i need to edit, i
must specify the original URL because it transforms the escaped characters.

Second option is not really an option because people who are using FrontPage
are not from Technical Team.

Isn't there a way to disable this automatic conversion?

Thanks,

Rui Ferreira.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

No, however you should be able to use the Insert HTML component so that FP doesn't modify the code.

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[Rui Ferreira]

There isn't a "friendly way" to do that, without editing the code?

Thanks,

Rui Ferreira.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

No.

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[Jim Buyens]

No, you can't disable the automatic conversion.

However, if you're worried about non-technical users editing the page in
FrontPage, I wouldn't count on them correctly entering URLs like

http://rep.bancobpi.pt/bpicampanhas/redirect.asp?REF={E0EC11AD-221D-49E7-A082-97554BFC5C1E}&OP=50&URLR=http://www.bancobpi.pt/pagina.asp?s=1&a=4&f=307&26opt=f

even if you could disable the URL decoding. Instead, you should probably
script an easier and better solution of some kind.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
o--> Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition: Build a Web Site
Now!
o--> Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
o--> Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
o--> Faster Smarter Beginning Programming

 

[Rui Ferreira]

I know that non-technical people aren't able to write that kind of URLs.
So, i've created i friendly backoffice to generate the URLs.
The problem is that the URLs are included on HTML Pages edited by that
persons and special characters are not well supported.

I think i'll try HTML Control.

Thanks.

Rui Ferreira.