I’m trying to link to articles in our local paper, and they’re using non-standard nomenclature. FW tries to “fix” the links by substituting code for characters it doesn%19t like. The links then fail, although they’re fine minus the “help.” Is there any way to force FW to publish exactly what I type?
Thanks, David
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Anything that Freeway does to a URL it does because the characters you are trying to use are not legal. For example, if you put a question mark in the middle of a folder name in a URL, that would cause the browser to stop the URL at that point and consider everything after the question mark as a GET request. Freeway will quite properly encode that question mark as %3F. Can you give an example of the types of characters you’re trying to use?
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On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:51 PM, David wrote:
I’m trying to link to articles in our local paper, and they’re using non-standard nomenclature. FW tries to “fix” the links by substituting code for characters it doesn%19t like. The links then fail, although they’re fine minus the “help.” Is there any way to force FW to publish exactly what I type?
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Walt,
http://durangoherald.com/article/20120210/ARTS01/702109957/-Don’t-tell-me-it’s-Paula-Poundstone
is one example. Obviously, it is replacing the apostrophe with %19, and I understand why, but the net effect is that it’s taking a link that works and making it invalid. I’m really just wondering if there is a way to force Freeway to publish the link verbatim. No biggie… I can do without the links.
Thanks, David
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Hi David,
The quotes in your example are curly quotes (rather than straight ones) which are invalid in URLs. Freeway knows they need encoding and converts them as %19 hex entities. Unfortunately Freeway (IMHO) should really be swapping these for straight quotes.
If you copy the URL directly from The Durango Herald web site and paste this into Freeway the link should work;
http://durangoherald.com/article/20120210/ARTS01/702109957/-Don't-tell-me-it's-Paula-Poundstone
Regards,
Tim.
On 13 Feb 2012, at 21:19, David wrote:
Obviously, it is replacing the apostrophe with %19, and I understand why, but the net effect is that it’s taking a link that works and making it invalid. I’m really just wondering if there is a way to force Freeway to publish the link verbatim. No biggie… I can do without the links.
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Hi guys,
Those links are using a link lengthening technique. The last part of the link can be anything you like and the correct article will still be served (apart from the percent-encoding that Freeway’s adding, we’ll look into that).
http://durangoherald.com/article/20120210/ARTS01/702109957/-Freeway-is-the-bees'-knees
The important thing in the URL is everything before the text, so the following is the shortest possible version of the URL available that will work in Freeway:
http://durangoherald.com/article/20120210/ARTS01/702109957
Hope this helps,
Joe
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