We're working with the eBay search APIs to do product searches and we're running into a problem. A lot of the item names have @ signs in the name (a lot of "L@@K!" or "@ L@@K @". We use the item name as the link to the product, but in IE, the @ sign [under certain conditions, described below] causes the URL to be messed up. Instead of displaying the item name, it displays the actual URL. The link still works, but it's not exactly user-friendly.
The cases that seem to cause it (that we know of): 1) two @ signs together ( @@ ) 2) a single @ sign surrounded by spaces When you get those results back on eBay's site, it doesn't cause a problem, so they must have found some way around it. But everything we've tried hasn't worked. We've tried displaying the HTML entities (@), using HTMLEditFormat(), URLEncodedFormat(), and XMLFormat(). We've been able to get around the @@ problem by replacing them with the letter O [since it's most likely that @@ are meant to be O's and not a's]. But, with the single version, we can't necessarily assume that. And, we can't necessarily do replaces for every combination, because we don't know them all. So, does anyone know 1) why IE does this and 2) a good fix for it? I've tried to Google it, but it's hard because the search basically ignores @ symbols). And, I've tried to look in the eBay developer forums. Thanks! -- ----------------------------------------- Scott Brady http://www.scottbrady.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:328514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
