[thelist] url encoding links to external sites

Simon Willison cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Sun Nov 2 13:49:33 CST 2003


fstorr wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Probably simple, but my brain is near mush.  I need my page to
> validate to XHTML1.0 but have this link:
> 
> http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=5
>  
> That, because it contains reserved characters, is causing my page not
> to validate.  I've tried encoding the ? with %3f and the = with %3d
> etc, but the URL then won't play with the national trust's server.
> Is there a way out of this?

You just need to replace the & with & - the question mark isn't the 
problem:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=5

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Simon Willison
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