Madhu Menon wrote: > At 03:23 AM 07-11-02, Taranis wrote: > > You might try this [careful of wrap]: > > http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=3704&back=http > > %3A%2F%2Fshare%2Estudio%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2FaxBrowseSubmit%2Easp%3Fc%3D35 > > It is for times like these that services like TinyURL were created. That > leads me to my tip: the killer is, the URL could have been deamazonised [1] thusly: http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=3704 the extra crap is just an attempt to make the page stateful with the browsing session it was captured from. [1] a process i've coined whereby you strip the extraneous crap from a URL to make it as short as possible without losing any core functionality beyond 'access the relevant web page' cf http://neuro.me.uk/blog/archive/2002_09_01_blog.html#85410670 -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb." -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/