I should add that this is for Admin pages..of course there's no need to pass the user name via the QueryString normally ;-)
Merak > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 April 2002 13:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET] ASP.NET BUG > > > Also reported at http://support.microsoft.com/support/feedback/ > Posted here FYI (because it wasted an hour or so of my time) > > When executing : > > Response.Redirect("~/default.aspx?user=" & userID) > > when userID is a Windows Authenticated user (ie is in the > form "domain\user"), the "\" is changed to "/" > > (A bit of a PITA when you then look this up in a database for > user-specific > data) > > It looks like despite \ being valid in the QueryString, > Response.Redirect simply replaces \ with / (probably to fix > URLs) regardless of it's location > > Server.HTMLEncode does not affect this character, so you have > to mung it manually :-( > > Merak You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
