Equals Sign in Response Redirect

[mwolf00]

I am trying to redirect to a PDF file and open at a certain page. Unfortunately, the "=" sign becomes "%3D" in the address bar and does not resolve. Is there a way to prevent the encoding?

response.redirect "[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver/Metastorm/customASP/ownedIRG.pdf#page=7"[/URL]

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[Chopstik]

Can you not just server.urlencode it? Or am I making it more simple than I should?...

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[onpnt]

Hey mwolf. Hope all is well!

I had this problem once a long time ago. It really is a special case situation. I ended up never finding a good solution to get it to go directly to the url I wanted so instead I had to write a processing script and place it in the middle of the two. it was as clean as I could get the setup. It wasn't like yours though and it didn't rely on opening a file that is getting parms so I'm not sure it will help unless you can open the file from the processing script instead of direct url to it

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[mwolf00]

Chopstik - server.urlEncode will actually do the opposite of what I want done. I'm trying to prevent encoding of the string which seems to be happening on its own. My script that says

response.redirect "[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver/Metastorm/customASP/ownedIRG.pdf#page=7"[/URL]

makes

[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver/Metastorm/customASP/ownedIRG.pdf#page[/URL][b][red]%3D[/red][/b]7

appear in the address bar.


onpnt - Thanks for the response. All is well and EXTREMELY busy. My application is in final testing and I should have an operational release next month...

I think that we'll have to have them change the PDFs so that they open to the table of contents by default. I believe that is an option when you create them.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

 

[DotNetGnat]

try this link:

http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/how-do-i-decode-an-encoded-url.html

-DNG

 

[DotNetGnat]

one more link:

http://www.aspnut.com/reference/encoding.asp

-DNG

 

[ChrisHirst]

or even thread333-306528

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