I have a small db that holds all my movies. To make life simple I made a small script that puts the url together for a search on imdb.com. FM submits a valid url to Safari, but in the address bar appears // after the domain. Like this:

http://www.google.com[color:"red"]//[/color] search?q=aardman+classics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 

Is there a bug in the Open url script step? Or do I have to look elsewhere for a fix.

Running 10.3.6, FM 7.03 and Safari 1.2.4

TIA

This has been confirmed as a bug by FileMaker, FileMaker Pro adds a slash to the URL when sending it to Safari. Other browsers are not affected AFAIK.

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately Firefox and Opera are affected too.

While waiting for a fix I'll give AppleScript a go.

Just found this thread after I posted the same question.

One workaround is to use an extra slash and asterix in the calculated URL. In my example:

"http://www.google.com" & "[color:"red"]/*/search?hl=en&lr=&q=" & GoogleMe & "&btnG=Google+Search", and the resulting "good" page has an URL of:

http://www.google.com//*/search?hl=en&lr=&q=prd-13&btnG=Google+Search.

It works but it looks strange.

NOTE: this is in response to zincb

I posted this in another area, so I figured I post it here too.

Here's an interesting tidbit. If you use a back slash, "", in front of the "search" word, instead of "/", it works right. So, make your calc look like this:

"http://www.google.comsearch?hl=en&q=" & googleMe & "&btnG=Google+Search"

HTH

Adam