# URLRequest help

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlrequest-help/261171
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 23, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlrequest-help/261171 "2008-05-23T18:55:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![juskin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@juskin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/juskin)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlrequest-help/261171/1 "2008-05-23T18:55:44Z")

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so IM trying to take input text, and apply it to a URL string.  
Im using URLRequest, and this is not kiking back an error,  
but its also not including the zip either??

var zip:String;  
var norcalhonda:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“[http://www.norcalhonda.com/result.php?searchzip=](http://www.norcalhonda.com/result.php?searchzip=)” + zip);

goBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK , getCode);

function getCode(event:MouseEvent):void  
{  
zip = zipInput.text;  
navigateToURL(norcalhonda);  
//trace(zip);  
}

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### Author: ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlrequest-help/261171/2 "2008-05-23T19:02:01Z")

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The string concatenation occurs when the URLRequest is constructed. At the time, _zip_ is null. You should create the URLRequest inside of _getCode_.

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### Author: ![ImAFlasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba9def/32.png) [@ImAFlasher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ImAFlasher)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlrequest-help/261171/3 "2008-05-23T19:04:44Z")

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you coult try forming the URLRequest first.

IE -

```auto

var strRequest:String = "http://www.norcalhonda.com/result.php?searchzip=" + zip;
 
var norcalhonda:URLRequest = new URLRequest(strRequest);

```

However, I doubt you will see any difference, ultimately it’s doing the same thing.

Worth a try though 😉

-------------------------------------edit below  
Ahh, Krilnon is correct, good call.

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### Author: ![juskin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@juskin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/juskin)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urlrequest-help/261171/4 "2008-05-23T19:16:26Z")

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thank you krilnon, I loosely came to taht conclusion when I changed set the variable to a real zip code, I knew it wasnt picking it up and hadnt calculated it yet, but I didnt think you could put a URLRequest Variable in a function, makes a lot of sense! thanks man!