Thanks fot the tip.
But in this case the goal is to provide users with an unique hash and
to validate their handsets to get access to a newspapers standing
subscriber-feed.
Thus the parameter is intended for one time use.

The link is retrieved from our SMSC by sending a keyword to a known
shortcode.

//Jan

On Feb 5, 5:40 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW, it's been suggested to use a link shortening service - that would
> break intent filters, if they are used to launch the application.
>
> What would work, is to use URL rewriting, so rather than using:
>
> http://www.site.com/page?param=value
>
> one would use something like:
>
> http://www.site.com/page/param/value
>
> A rewritten URL like the above would still work with intent filters to
> launch the application, if that's the goal.
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 05.02.2011 18:25, kernelpanic пишет:
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> > You didn't mention which Galaxy S phone or if it's all of them.
>
> > FWIW, I've had no issues sending this type of URL through an SMS
> > gateway to the Samsung Epic Galaxy class phone - works as expected.
>
> > I do question the validity of the spaces in the query and suspect that
> > is the issue here.
>
> > I can send you a screen shot from an Epic showing my links versus your
> > links - mine look fine, yours look like your image.
>
> > I also sent the same text message to a diff phone (J2ME based) and the
> > link is underlined up to the first space but it includes the ?
> > sc=4KNZNSEN part in the link
>
> > Loosely related - in the past, I have had issues with some phones/
> > carriers when the URL string is rather long. There is the obvious
> > inherent SMS length limitations, but even when that is complied with,
> > I have seen some devices that accept the URL in the SMS, but then
> > truncate it between the SMS and the browser when the link is tapped -
> > some as short as 60 characters, some at 64 characters, some not at
> > all. However, I don't think that is the problem here since you are
> > saying it is happening at the "?"
>
> > On Feb 2, 3:51 am, Jan Westin<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Has anyone else stumbled upon a similar issue as seen in the following
> >> screen shot :http://twitpic.com/3vpnzx
>
> >> The problem is when a user sends a URL containing a query string, the
> >> query string is not interpreted as part of the URL.
>
> >> I've seen this happen to both my HTC Desire running 2.2 and on Samsung
> >> galaxy S phones.
>
> >> Does anyone know of a workaround or a fix for this?
>
> >> //Jan
>
> --
> Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget 
> --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com

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