Passing a full url and query string in Javascript?

crighton · Aug 31, 2001

Hi,

I've hit a snag with what I thought would be a routine "send this page to a friend" link.

The email itself is sent with php, but the process begins with a javascript window launch that passes the following code to the new window:

var url = url + "?url=" + location.href

Now, my pages have urls that look like this (or at least they vary on this general structure):

http://crighton.looptele.com/test/curriculum/index.php?page=photograph&image=1&lang=en

The javascript clip above terminates the url after the initial query (?page=photograph), resulting in the following incomplete url being included in the final sent email:

http://crighton.looptele.com/test/curriculum/index.php?page=photograph

Clicking on each of those will show you the difference.

I'd prefer - if possible - to keep the current system having already spent some hours on design with it, so my preferred solution is to find a way to pass those urls in full - queries, ampersands and all.

Anyone have any idea how I can do this?

Help appreciated...

Gary

inlandpac · Sep 2, 2001

Try this (basically, the escape and unescape functions are the key).

Chad.

^{<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>

<title>pass uncorrupted url</title>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

function gothere() {

var thispage=location.href;

var url = "http://65.108.22.88/dev/testme.htm?url="
+ escape(thispage);

parent.location.href = url;

}

var myRE = /.+url\=.+/

var urlexists = myRE.exec(location.href) ? true : false;

if(urlexists) {

var thisurl = location.href.split('url=');

thisurl = unescape(thisurl[1]);

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

<script language="javascript">

if(urlexists) {

document.write(thisurl);

}

</script>

<a href="javascript:gothere();">go there</a>

</body>

</html>} ICQ: 54380631

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Passing a full url and query string in Javascript?

crighton

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