ah yeah, it's not when i view the error in the browser, which i've not tried as i've never been able to replicate the error. it's when i later view the application.log in notepad.
maybe i should just use url parameters that i know won't be interpreted by IE incorrectly, but I don't know where i'd get a complete list of those... Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Stephen Moretti" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: ter.co.uk> Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] Page Parameters 08/07/2003 11:01 Please respond to dev Sounds like the browser is interpreting your query string as html when displaying the log entry.... Its something I keep seeing over years and a quick glance at the page source will tell you if the query string really does have a pound sign in it or its just the browser turning &prod into the escaped characters that it represents. Officially this shouldn't happen, because these escape codes should be completed with a semi-colon eg. ∏, but MS being MS took it upon them selves to ignore that fact and if it sees an escape code in some text without the semi-colon it converts it for you even though it shouldn't.... Regards Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Page Parameters on a side-note to this, has anyone ever had problems where a url parameter seems to get interpreted as a html character entity? e.g. you've got a page with a parameter called Product, the url might be page.cfm?action=jump&product=123. then an error appears in application.log, which indicates "&prod" has been turned into whatever that's meant to be, in the same way as & or £ might get turned into & and £. And the CGI.Query_String looks like page.cfm?action=jump.uct=123, where the . is actually some odd character that doesn't get printed properly in the application.log, but is obviously the 'special character' it represents. So the page chokes as all it's got is URL.jump[specialchar]uct, instead of URL.jump and URL.product. Oddly I think this happens even though the page would have <cfparam> checking for them both. I've never been able to duplicate this error, and it happens very rarely. I assumed it was because of having things like <a href ="page.cfm?action=jump&product=123"> which of course should be written as <a href="page.cfm?action=jump&product=123">, as any fule kno. However, on a recent site I had already changed all the url's to the correct versions, with the exception of some javascript document.location.href = "blah" stuff, where I figured it didn't make sense to turn & into &. Still got this error on that site, once, don't know why. Not sure if it's just &prod, but I think it could happen with others too. it's not a big problem as it so rarely happens, but it would be nice to know i could do something simple to prevent it ever happening in the first place. Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aidan Whitehall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nks.co.uk> cc: Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Page Parameters 08/07/2003 10:30 Please respond to dev > erm, use the URL scope/structure or the CGI vars Just to clarify, if your URL looks like this: index.cfm?page=this&somvar=that in the code in index.cfm, you can refer to #url.page# and #url.somevar# Alternatively, you can output the entire querystring using #cgi.query_string# You put a question mark after the template name and then ampersands between variable-value pairs, btw -- Aidan Whitehall <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks Environmental Ltd +44 (0)1695 51775 Queen's Awards Winner 2003 <http://www.fairbanks.co.uk/go/awards> ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. 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