[mapserver-users] Problem with Netscape treating a space different than Internet Explorer :

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi,

You may want to try a JavaScript call to figure out which browser is the client, i.e.:

<script language="JavaScript">
  var newURL = "";

	var myURL = "http://www.houstoneng.com/mapserv/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?&map=[map]&template=printmap.html&layers=[layers]&mapext=[minx]+[miny]+[maxx]+[maxy]";

  if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") {
    // format URL to replace real spaces with the hex equivalent (%20)
	  newURL = myURL.replace(/ /g,"%20");	
  }
	else {
		newURL = myURL;
  }

	document.write(newURL);
</script>

Check the JavaScript documentation for the correct syntax on replacing substrings.

Hope this helps.

..Tom


You wrote...

>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:44:27 -0500
>From: Brian Fischer <bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com>
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem with Netscape treating a space
>    different than Internet Explorer 
>
>Mapserver community,
> 
>I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.  I assume there
>must be a way around it, but can't find a solution.
> 
>Here is the problem: I am using the [layers] cgi variable in a hyperlink
>like shown below.
> 
>http://www.houstoneng.com/mapserv/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?&map=[map]&templat
>e=printmap.html&layers=[layers]&mapext=[minx]+[miny]+[maxx]+[maxy]
> 
>The problem is Netscape does not replace the space with a %20, but
>Internet Explorer does.
> 
>Internet Explorer 5.5 URL:
>http://www.houstoneng.com/mapserv/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?&map=projects/fgdc
>/mapviewer/mapviewer.map&template=printmap.html&layers=lakes%20Rivers%20
>Roads&mapext=-100.092035+47.222059+-94.531453+51.668504
> 
>Netscape 4.7 URL:
>http://www.houstoneng.com/mapserv/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?&map=projects/fgdc
>/mapviewer/mapviewer.map&template=printmap.html&layers=lakes Rivers
>Roads&mapext=-96.766990+48.008085+-95.278996+49.197928
> 
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>Thanks,
>Brian
> 
>