blank space in Get URL anchor call

[willbo]

hmmmmm
Im calling anchors in a site between html documents fine with anchors like River Wilde. But when I call a link from my flash map it puts a %20 in the space and screws up the anchor link.. so http:\\

http://www.blah.com\places.htm#river

wilde
..gets screwed up with river%20wilde, yet works fine from html to html..
any idea how to send the blank space in the get URL line??
thanks in advance AGAIN

 

[PetitPal]

The %20 is put into a URL when there is a space in the name; it's called URL encoding and a %20 is used to represent the space. To get rid of the %20, get rid of the space in the name (try using an underscore or something).



PetitPal

 

[willbo]

right, well that would be easy, but ive indexed an entire set of html documents with anchors that have blank spaces in them... as they work fine between html documents. so i cant rightly go and change hundreds of spaces in anchors that are already setup.

SO there is NO WAY to pass a space in an Get URL??

and yet its NO PROBLEM between htmls?

 

[PetitPal]

how about putting a %20 into getURL? I don't know if it would work or not as I haven't tried it; the html to html thing works because html normally url encodes stuff before it sends it...

=)

PetitPal.

 

[willbo]

haha yeah that was the first thing i tried.. sounded like a good idea at the time
im just bummed that i was lead on that spaces would work since they work fine between html's. now im screwed.

 

[PetitPal]

I don't know whether this will work or not; but try using variable name in the getURL url parameter, instead of typing it; that may deal with the space (but I don't know... I'll keep thinking!)

=)

PetitPal.

 

[willbo]

hmmm pass a variable in the Get URL line whos value is like

http://www.text.com#my

anchor
?

is that passed as an expression?

i realized what ill probably have to do is make new anchors for all the dual word links from the map.. link em to just the first word, since i cant rightly go and change ALL the anchors..
oh btw the site im working on is

http://www.lordoftherings.com