[thelist] Quick & Dirty

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Just so you know, Ashok, the bit in the middle of evolt URLs
with the title in doesn't actually do anything on the server.

It's there for 2 reasons:
1) To make URLs more human-readable
2) To make URLs more search-engine friendly.

It also lets us do a bit of tracking of how links get used, so
if I post a URL to thelist like so:
http://www.evolt.org/article/thelist/17/21724/index.html
or (even better) to an ASP list like so:
http://www.evolt.org/article/asplist/17/21724/index.html
we can see from the logs how much that drew traffic to the
site.

It also have the useful effect that you can post shorter links
via email which don't get wrapped.

That's a nice useful script btw. I've dropped into <tip> tags
below so our Tip Harvester picks it up and attributes it to
you.

Cheers
Martin





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just somethin interesting for anyone whos interested :
<tip author="ashok at magicalkenya.com" type="URL escaping for filtering proxy
servers">
i tried accessing this recent article from my workplace comp:

http://www.evolt.org/article/Quick_and_Dirty_ASP_Array_Sorting/17/21724/index.html


unfortunately i got and access forbidden.... from the company
firewall..what i realize is
the admin of the proxy has decided to start blocking urls with words like
'dirty' and 'sex'...
what i realized then is :

http://www.evolt.org/article/Quick_and_D%69rty_ASP_Array_Sorting/17/21724/index.html


this url seems to go thru the proxy filter if i encode the word dirty ....
strangely it doesnt work when the word is part of the domain,for example if
i encode : www.dirty.org the proxy filters it out...
dont know if its somethin specific to the proxy (winroute pro) being used
or ...
so just wrote a small wsf script to
generate encoded versions of words... :

<job id="hexout">
'hexout.wsf
'execute syntax :
'cscript //Job:hexout hexout.wsf stringparam
   <script language="VBScript">
        Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
        strArgStr = objArgs(0)
        strHexout = ""
        For i=1 to Len(strArgStr)
          strCharAt = Mid(strArgStr,i,1)
          strHexout = strHexout &  "%" & CStr(Hex(Asc(strCharAt)))
          WScript.Echo strCharAt + " = %" + CStr(Hex(Asc(strCharAt)))
        Next
        WScript.Echo "Full output = " + strHexout
   </script>
</job>

just thot might be useful for somebody else with similar filtering
admins....
</tip>




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