Glenn, That %20 white space has *always* been inserted into every string on ever search site I've ever visited with netTamer or Arachne. The *web*page* CGI script does that so terms are clearly separated. If you use the plus sign it will either be ignored and after+sunset will be searched as "aftersunset" or it will be searched as "after+sunset" and the results will be the same. "No Matches Found!" BTW, MSIE and NS hide those characters from the user ... they simply refuse to print the white space or other things [like &] to the screen when they "relay" the search string being sent. Arachne doesn't hide those things. Some browsers have such a filter for those special symbols that people looking at "source" for a page don't see them! If you have dozebrowsers besides having Arachne, look at the code on some of my pages. With Arachne you'll see where I stick in the to make certain there are two spaces after each sentence. See if MSIE or NS show them. l.d. ==== On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:51:15 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:07:58 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: >> Pete wrote: >>> I can say from experience with certain >>> other site's search functions that A166 does have a problem. >>> http://www.modarchive.com >>> If I enter more than one word, "%20" (the i'net character for white >>> space) will be inserted. >>> Entered: after sunset >>> Searched: after%20sunset >>> Result: "No Matches Found!" >> Hi Pete; >> That's a serious bug. >> If someone else can confirm it, we should notify headquarters immediately. >> I'm on NS right now. > I'm sorry to say that I've just now confirmed it. :( > The work-around... change all %20s in the resulting URL line to + > We can't use + instead of a space in the search line because it gets > changed to %2B. :( -- Learn about B'FOR Join B'FOR - B'mothers For Open Records <a href="http://www.b-for.org">B'FOR web site</a> [Associate members of triad also welcome; membership confidential.] Every member counts! We need numbers to produce valid statistics. -- Arachne V1.64, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
