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VGT doesn't like parentheses in URLS?

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skyeye
01/14/10 11:03 PM

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I put this URL into a posting:
Code:
http://www.radomes.org/museum/showsite.php?site=Remsen+(Utica),+NY



Virtual Globetrotting dropped this from the link: (Utica),+NY

Giving me this: http://www.radomes.org/museum/showsite.php?site=Remsen+(Utica),+NY

See it in the Comments field:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/starr-hill-test-site/

I even had a problem posting the complete URL in this forum. Is the trouble with the parentheses or with the length of the URL?
milwhcky
01/15/10 12:08 AM

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It also does not like commas. You can work around this issue by replacing the special characters with their HTML ASCII codes.
%28 = (
%29 = )
%2c = ,
http://www.radomes.org/museum/showsite.php?site=Remsen+%28Utica%29%2c+NY
skyeye
01/15/10 01:24 AM

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Many thanks, muchas gracias, vielen Dank, and so on. Sometimes it takes the commas, but not the parens. I will keep this in mind.
nic
01/16/10 07:57 PM

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Hi guys,

I think I've fixed problems with both inline commas and parenthesis.

It's really hard to get this right with regular expressions so please let me know if you find problems.
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