Re: FLASH: Embedding Spaces in Mailto: (John C.?)

[John Croteau]

Hi Marc,


> I dug up an old email of yours because I wanted the correct syntax for

> inserting spaces in the ?body of a Get URL mailto: action. However, when I

> follow your advice, %20% displays " %" in the mail message body, whereas

> using %20 gets the desired single space (NC 4.7 PC).

%20 is correct.

See http://www.FlashBible.com/Members/Database/URL_Encoding.htm


> Can you enlighten me? Also I'm lost as to what you mean by

> >>My method of placing variables in the URL instead of using Get does not

> >>require converting spaces to URL encoding and seems to display spaces

> >>correctly in the email all the time.

If you add the variables after the ? in a Get URL the spaces may not be

a problem.

This is done in the Email Form:

http://www.FlashBible.com/Members/ActionScript/Email/Index.htm


> Is that a Flash4 scripting function? What is the syntax please (if you have

> time).

The Get sends all the variables in the Form

variable1=value1&variable2=value2  etc.

You can duplicate this by manually placing the ? mark and the variable

pairs.


I'm not sure about when we need to manually URL encode spaces ( %20 )

and other characters.


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