URL altering automatically??

[kiwiora]

I have a button specified using the "Open URL" feature. The link I am using is http://xeno.ipaustralia.gov.au/tmgoods.htm if i paste that in, for some reason when I click on it to go to the page it enters in an extra / before tmgoods i.e xeno.ipaustralia.gov.au[color:"red"]//tmgoods.htm If i go in and check it it is correct (namely no extra /) and yet when I click on the button it mysteriously adds an extra /

I know I could create an ugly global (i.e a superfluous field) and link to webpage, but I just want to understand if there's something I am fundamentally missing, or if it's just a bug?

[stuj1026]

BUG

[kiwiora]

SOAB!! And it's the same for globals etc.

Anyone got a work around??

Thanks.

[Fitch]

It's a known bug. The workaround is to delete the "http://" part.

[kiwiora]

It doesn't work without the http:// part .... as it's not a www address ??

[stuj1026]

OK I see your problem.. Hmmmmmmm. You could create a webpage using some web creation software like frontpage or dreamweaver and all the page will do is automatically forward you to your http://xenostuff.au. then you would keep that page in the same directory as your database.. Your open url would open that page on your machine which would automatically forward you to the URL requested!!!

That would work!

I will put one together for you and post shortly

Stu

[stuj1026]

here ya go this file will redirect to your url

Stu

redirect.zip

[Barbecue]

I can't reproduce this bug in FM Developer, is it only a bug in regular FileMaker?