# navigateToURL() encoding issues

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigatetourl-encoding-issues/304923>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 16, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigatetourl-encoding-issues/304923 "2010-02-16T16:03:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigatetourl-encoding-issues/304923/1 "2010-02-16T16:03:06Z")

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Hey all,

Has anyone run into a problem using flash.net.navigateToURL() and relative links on an https server? apparently our server is running IIS 6 and when I put a link such as “page1/about” into the navigateToURL function i get a Server Error saying access is denied because the URL is encoded like such:

“[https://somesite.com/Admin?ReturnUrl=%2page1�out](https://somesite.com/Admin?ReturnUrl=%252page1%about)”

This occurs only using Internet Explorer.

any insight in how to fix this besides using absolute URLs would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!