Well just remember that copying and pasting often selects extra characters (like blanks either side of the string)....and I'm mentioning this because Rob you have not said explicitly that you did check for this....just being thorough ;-)
If you've already made sure the values are trimmed and each character is indeed IDENTICAL, then move on Cheers *Bryan Stevenson*B.Comm. President & CEO Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. - makers of FACTS^(TM) phone: 250.480.0642 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: br...@electricedgesystems.com <mailto:br...@electricedgesystems.com> web: www.electricedgesystems.com <http://www.electricedgesystems.com> and www.fisheryfacts.com <http://www.fisheryfacts.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -----CONFIDENTIALITY------ This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this message and attachments. On 13-08-27 03:48 PM, Rob Voyle wrote: > Hi Ray and Dave > > If it were a length issue then it wouldn't work if I just paste it in from the > database. > Also its not an error in the string as you suggest Dave. I have both copied it > straight from the database and then copied it from a cfm page where the > database query is being presented. Both work fine. Its just the cflocation > that is > not working.Using CF9 if that matters. > > Rob > > >>> I have a long encrypted url stored in a database: >>> >>> the cgi.query_string is something like >>> >>> YJShGG8kxBWgJKOlo2z4oTM8jEanxnGNBzw+QBQw8JBtuiQ8Oyn6tc6qmbd+E7W >>> vcbfncSF/pq2ttDOdegKnxA== >>> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm