[Solved] URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

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taadev
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[Solved] URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

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This may be a problem with certain browsers but when I enter a link of:
http://dragonspaw.blogspot.com/search/label/%23%23prerequisite

With the same description. The link is converted to:
http://dragonspaw.blogspot.com/search/label/#%23prerequisite

This is invalid and generates a 404 when clicked.

Any idea as to how to prevent this 'help' by Writer or other work around? :idea:

Thanks a million!

ta :?:
Last edited by Hagar Delest on Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

Post by Hagar Delest »

Hi and welcome to the forum!

There was a recent discussion about that here: [Solved] Hyperlinks change upon insertion. However, it had no impact on the true url. In your case, however, only the first %23 is replaced by its value (#). I tried with 2 ## and it doesn't work.
This is something related to url parsing with unicode but I'm not an expert.
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Re: URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

Post by musikai »

Can confirm it with LO4.4.7.
In odt and PDF-Export the first %23%23 gets converted to #%23
When exporting to html both get converted to ##
For usage in PDF best don't insert as Hyperlink but unformatted text, so the PDF-Reader can detect correctly.
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taadev
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Re: URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

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Then this is a bug and it's on the XP and Win 7 versions as well.

This is by far the best Office version and my first use was Libre; your's is far more stable!

Thanks for the great tool, and help folks!

Regards,
T

ps: Is there a bug report that can be monitored?
Thx again!
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Re: URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

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A workaround could be to shorten the url with https://goo.gl/
taadev wrote:This is by far the best Office version and my first use was Libre; your's is far more stable!
I agree. LO seems to favour new function over stability whereas AOO favours stability over new function.
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Re: URL conversion of %23 to "#" and 404

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As a former IBM'er that loaths the WinTel memory Hog/BUG model to drag you forward into their back door/ravioli code model, stability is my concern.
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Thanks for the idea and I can't believe that did not occur to me as TinyURL is used all the time!
Worked like a charm! :super:
http://TinyURL.com/DragonsPawPrereqs

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