Quoting Dave Symes <d...@triffid.co.uk>: > NetSurf version (Dev) r9377 (20 June 2009) and previous version. > > Downloaded copies of my bank statement (Html) later when I found time to > look at it in detail, I dropped it on the on the NetSurf Icon bar icon > (Same happens if dropped in to an open NetSurf window) when it opened the > file path shown in the URL bar was: > > file:///ADFS%3A%3AHD4.%24/TransDir/Default/Fri21/state1a > > The actual file path as shown by another browser is: > > file:/ADFS::HD4/$/TransDir/Default/Fri21/state1a > > Anyone know what this means and why?
Yes: colon is a meaningful character in a URL, so it has been "escaped" - replaced by a sequence of characters, "%3A", which are interpreted as a colon but without the significance. Significance? Think of "file:" and http:" - the colon matters. If you were to look up an ASCII table, 3A is the hexadecimal representation of the printable character ":". Dave Dave ------------------------------------------------- Visit Pipex Business: The homepage for UK Small Businesses Go to http://www.pipex.co.uk/business-services
