We’ve recently been stumped trying to get flash to successfully getURL. The getURL was well formed, with a target of “_blank”. Changing the URL to something basic e.g. blah.html worked just fine.
However, anything which has the following character combination within the URL string chokes & won’t trigger the getURL:
getURL("a\\b", "_blank");
Obviously the backslash character is very rare in URL’s but does anyone know of a way to make this work? Or is it just a bug within Flash 8 Professional?
The actual paramterized url we were trying to pull up had ?blah=something\somethingelse\etc within it. Originally we just pasted the URL in but the backslash was interpreted by flash to be a special character cue, changing e.g. \200 -> Euro symbol. thus we put \ to ensure flash knew we wanted to use a literal backslash character in the string.
in the end we’ve ended up just building an HTML redirect page which ricochets to the page as intended but if anyone knows more about this, I’m interested to know why it wasn’t working.
