Sorry, I had escaped the colon in the test file to test whether it
worked and forgot to restore the unescaped version.
Please try it now.

On Sep 22, 11:48 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Douglas-
>
> I tried out both those pages and they work equally well for me. Does
> it fail for you in all browsers? All computers?
>
> - pamela
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >http://web.mac.com/douglas.mackenzie/milesbetter/flex/MapSimple.html
> > The variable testUrl is shown at the top (www.test.com)
>
> >http://web.mac.com/douglas.mackenzie/milesbetter/flex/MapSimpleWithCo...
> > Again the variable testUrl is shown at the top (http://www.test.com)
>
> > Everything is identical apart from the value of testUrl.
>
> > On Sep 20, 4:48 pm, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi Pamela,
>
> >> My hope was that someone else would append the URL query string with a
> >> variable containing a colon in the value and see whether the API
> >> failed on a page of their own.
>
> >> I will put an example on a test server now and reply when it's live.
>
> >> Thanks
>
> >> Doug
>
> >> Okay here's actual files
>
> >> On Sep 20, 4:18 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > Hi Douglas-
>
> >> > Instead of giving links to my mydomain.com, can you instead give links
> >> > to your actual domain and SWF showing the problem? That'd make it much
> >> > easier to confirm your findings.
>
> >> > Thanks!
> >> > - pamela
>
> >> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > > The problem doesn't occur if FlashVars are used instead.
>
> >> > > Unfortunately, that doesn't help my situation as I have no control
> >> > > over the query string or whether FlashVars is used...
>
> >> > > On Sep 20, 1:42 pm, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > >> Hi everyone,
>
> >> > >> I think I've found a bug which occurs when passing variables in to a
> >> > >> SWF containing the Flash API.
>
> >> > >> The map API works fine when variables are passed into the SWF on the
> >> > >> query string as in the example below:
>
> >> > >>http://www.mydomain.com/MapSimple.swf?testVariables=goHere
>
> >> > >> If however there is a colon in the query string such as:
>
> >> > >>http://www.mydomain.com/MapSimple.swf?testUrl=http//:www.test.com
>
> >> > >> The map API fails.
>
> >> > >> This has been driving me mad as I have no control over the query
> >> > >> string on my client's server. A number of variables are added
> >> > >> automatically including some URLs. I've been pulling my hair out
> >> > >> trying to work out why the map works perfectly on the test server but
> >> > >> fails on the live server.
>
> >> > >> Can anyone else confirm these findings?
>
> >> > >> If my theory is correct is there any chance someone at Google could
> >> > >> investigate the issue?
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