Opening a URL Containing Blanks (Magic xpa 3.x)
This Technical Note explains how you can open a URL with blanks from Magic xpa.
Many URLs contain blanks that Internet Explorer translates to %20.
When Magic xpa tries to access such a URL, Magic xpa looks for a Logical Name and tries to translate it, causing the URL to be incorrect.
Let’s say you have a URL with blanks and it displays in Internet Explorer as follows:
http://iit.bloomu.edu/dit/assets/pdf/Final%20eDeveloper%20Brochure.pdf
If you try to use this URL from eDeveloper using the Exit operation, a “page cannot be displayed” error message will be shown.
This is because Magic xpa will look for a Logical Name named 20eDeveloper, and once not found, it will look for the following URL:
http://iit.bloomu.edu/dit/assets/pdf/Final20Brochure.pdf
To overcome this behavior the following expression should be used:
'cmd /c explorer http://iit.bloomu.edu/dit/assets/pdf/Final eDeveloper Brochure.pdf'
Although all instances of %20 were replaced with blanks, Internet Explorer will automatically translate them back to %20.
