broken hyper link in email 1

[garygruber]

i am using SMTP and System.Web.Mail to create email notifications for users when reports are generated. the messages contain a hyperlink to a network folder. the folder name contains a blank space ASC(20) in it.

i am sure this is a common problem but have not found a viable solution yet to fixing the broken link.

complete link:
\\msgcli1p1v\LO File Store\Reporting\Disbursement\2006\09\20

only this is shown as a hyperlink:
\\msgcli1p1v\LO

how do i handle the space char?

 

[ralphtrent]

my guess is because of the link. Are you surrounding the link with single quotes?

 

[garygruber]

i have tried both single and double quotes. neither work.

thanks for your interest.

 

[PGoRule]

Try passing that link string as:

string lnk = @"\\msgcli1p1v\LO File Store\Reporting\Disbursement\2006\09\20"

Sharing the best from my side...

--Prashant--

 

[garygruber]

it is already resolving itself to that format in the debugger.

thanks anyway...

 

[Guru7777]

Have you tried Server.UrlEncode to try to make the link something more palletable? If it is going to an email client, it should be able to process that link.

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[misterstick]

if the question you're asking is "how do i get my smtp client to accept that hyperlinks in text documents can contain spaces" then the answer is you can't.

rename the network share without spaces.

or use html/rtf/word formatting for your emails.



mr s. <

 

[Guru7777]

Forgive my spelling of palatable.

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[garygruber]

sorry, but i am not the head of the dept. in this 12 billion dollar company. so i cannot rename a network share.

 

[Guru7777]

You don't rename the share. You Url Encode it in code.

string lnk = Server.UrlEncode("\\\\msgcli1p1v\\LO File Store\\Reporting\\Disbursement\\2006\\09\\20");

Then use lnk like you need to. That was my suggestion.

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[misterstick]

you can urlencode all you want, but if your users use outlook or outlook express as an SMTP client, it won't allow spaces in a unc sharename: the encoding just doesn't work, and neither "+" nor "%20" will make windows navigate to the correct folder.

i'd be really glad to be proved wrong because i've been trying to find a workaround for a while. the only way i've found is to use html.



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