Win XP
FMP 7 dev

I want to create an assisted search using Google.

I have created an calc that has the full URL as a result

http://www.google.nl/search?q=tower+...nl-NL:official

When I paste this inside the browser (Firefox) it performs the search I
need.
When I use the 'Open URL' scriptstep, it fails. On closer inspection there
appears an extra / within the Firefox. It now says

http://www.google.nl//search?q=tower...nl-NL:official

Extra / after google.nl has been inserted somewhere. Calc is still OK,
pasting the URL is still OK, trying to open through the script fails.

Any idea's why this would be?

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Ursus

In article <436606c4$0$27739$dbd4d001 (AT) news (DOT) wanadoo.nl>,
"ursus.kirk" <secret (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote:

I've seen similar problems with FileMaker 7 Pro Mac for URLs that have a
'~' in them. The '~' gets converted into a slash. Its a bug, and I
filed it into the black hole that is FileMaker bug reports. The correct
URL is saved in the database. Somewhere in the script step it gets
modified.

That said you're URL doesn't seem to have an special characters around
where the extra slash appears. Its clearly an embarassing bug, and I
know of no work around.

Anyone know if this is "fixed" in FileMaker 8?

rus

In article <nospam-4A5221.09003901112005 (AT) typhoon (DOT) sonic.net>,
Russell Sheptak <nospam (AT) for (DOT) me> wrote:


<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/tilde.html>

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bil hays
Network Manager
Computer Science

In article <bil_hays-7F0F98.13195201112005 (AT) news1 (DOT) isis.unc.edu>,
bil hays <bil_hays (AT) unc (DOT) edu> wrote:

nope, that doesn't work either in FM 7 Pro. As the indicated webpage
points out, under RFC 2396 that shouldn't be necessary, In any event
what this script step should be doing is just passing the URL intact to
my web browser (presumably on a macintosh by using an Applescript open
event). It should not be messing with the encoding or escaping anything
in that string.

rus