Hey gang - Got a little personal side project I've been working on lately, and I've come across a small stumper.
What I have is a GreaseMonkey (FF plug-in) script that will do a screenscrape of a particular page, package up the needed data into a query string, and push it via HTTP to my CF hosting account. I've got a page there that catches the data in the URL and does what it does with it. The trick is, I'm finding that there are data bits out there that have a pound sign in them. An example I'm working on now - one variable has the value '!$#$!'. (Don't ask. Long story.) But when doing a dump of the URL structure, it only shows '!$'. I've tried grabbing this query string, sticking it in a browser, and adding a second pound to the variable value, i.e. '!$##$!' - hoping that would cause it to escape - but no go. URL dump still shows '!$'. I may well, on the data scraping side, just convert any pound signs I get to some odd string - like '[pound]' or something that wouldn't normally show up - and then convert back on the CF side prior to the database insert. But that's clunky and I don't like it...! Is there any way to deal with the pound signs as they come in? I've Googled around, but I have yet to find any results that aren't dealing with the basic "Spit out CF variables by surrounding them with pound signs" type pages. :/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298683 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
