Re: Mac OS X AppleScript Bug?
Re: Mac OS X AppleScript Bug?
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X AppleScript Bug?
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:28:26 -0800
Reported in RADAR 2783916 and fixed in Jaguar 6B11 and later. It was a
problem in HLTB over-aggressively encoding the URL.
Chris
On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 03:03 PM, Wayne Brissette wrote:
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Chris Espinosa email@hidden on 13 March 2002 said:
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> On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 01:25 PM, Wayne Brissette wrote:
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>> Here is an odd one. If you take a URL with an anchor (#) and pass it
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>> off
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>> to a i.e. via AppleScript in Mac OS 9. The document opens and goes to
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>> the
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>> expected location. However, when the same AppleScript is used in Mac
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>> OS X
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>> (10.1.3) the pound is converted to # and thus the script fails.
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>> Is this a problem in AppleScript for Mac OS X or Mac OS X itself?
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> It depends on how you are specifying the URL and sending it to IE. Can
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> you post the code that does this? Two things seem possible: one is
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> that IE on X is ncoding the incoming URL, and the other is that the
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> entity that parses and redirects the 'open location' command (in 9 it
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> was InternetConfig, in X HIToolbox owns it) is improperly encoding
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> the #.
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> Chris
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Interesting...
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If you use
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tell application "Internet Explorer"
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OpenURL "http://www.macintouch.com/spambounce.html#mar11";
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end tell
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it works. However:
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using
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open location "http://www.macintouch.com/spambounce.html#mar11";
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fails because the # is turned into # ... But again, this is only in
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Mac
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OS X, under Mac OS 9 it works fine.
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