----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Grimes" <info at scribenewmedia.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:26 PM > This may be a stupid question, but is it alright to pass a URL or file name > as a GET variable? For example: > > http://www.example.com/some_script.php?location=http://www.somesite.com > http://www.example.com/some_script.php?location=some_page.php > > Does this conform to spec? Are there any browsers that will get confused by > this? You can pass those strings, but you must first encode the values. Check out PHP's urlencode function. http://www.zend.com/manual/function.urlencode.php <><><><><><><><><><> Joshua Olson Web Application Engineer WAE Tech Inc. http://www.waetech.com 706.210.0168