Problem with href query string

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I've a problem with this url's query string,
when i host this the query string "page=videos&section=view" is parsed as "page=videos§ion=view"
so my link is not working, what shall i do?
eg: http://www.samplewebsite.com/index.aspx?page=videos&section=view&vid_id=100092"

Posted 29-Jul-11 1:24am

meetjanakiraman

Updated 29-Jul-11 1:26am

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 1 · 2011-07-29T01:30:00

Solution 2

look at this: http://www.andreas.com/faq-char.html[^]

&sect gets translated to hex 167.

Posted 29-Jul-11 1:30am

Manas Bhardwaj

Updated 29-Jul-11 1:31am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 29-Jul-11 7:42am

~~My vote of 3:~~

I'm not totally convinced yet. Eventhough it would be the right character as § equals to §, I'm still in doubt because OP's string did not contain the semicolon at the end of the entity.

Manas Bhardwaj 29-Jul-11 8:00am

I also thought so. But if you try simple Response.Write("&section"); on a page you would see 167 character followed by "ion".

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 29-Jul-11 10:53am

Vote corrected to 5:
I suspect that this is a browser bug. I'll run this through my herd of browsers and will report back shortly.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 29-Jul-11 11:04am

OK FightAFox, ShmoogleGnome and InternetExploder all exhibit this behaviour when subjected to the following test HTML:

<html><body>

This is the real deal "Section entity": §<br/>

There is something in this line that might be mistaken for the real thing: &section<br/>

Hey an ampersand & and now as an entity: &</body></html>

Manas Bhardwaj 29-Jul-11 11:09am

same goes for Banana's Safari and GOpera :)

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 31-Jul-11 5:07am

So it's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)

meetjanakiraman 6-Aug-11 14:22pm

Hey guys finally i got solution of my own, if i rearrange the query string it works Eg:http://www.samplewebsite.com/index.aspx?section=view&page=videos&vid_id=100092" or if i use & amp; section=view instead of & section=view it works.

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-07-29T01:29:00

Solution 1

What does this return:

C#

string page = Request.QueryString.Item("page");
string section = Request.QueryString.Item("section");
string videoID = Request.QueryString.Item("vid_id");

Posted 29-Jul-11 1:29am

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