passing a URL to a php page

[system]

I am trying to pass an encoded URL to a php page like so:

http://mywebsite.com/_links/add-link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fanotherwebsite.com%2Fpage.html&t=page%title

This link works on a one webserver but not another (the one on which I need to use the code).

On the first webserver the URL and page title are displayed perfectly, but on the second one I get the “page not found” error.

If I remove the ‘colon’ in ‘http:’ it works. If I remove the double slashes in ‘http://’ it works.

It must be a php setting? But which one?

Thanks for any help.

[plintu]

on the webserver that id does not work is there a .htaccess file?
can you use the url’s without http:// on both servers? if so why not just do that? is add-link.php exactly the same on both servers?
and lastly what version of php are you using on both servers?

[lcatwebb]

Yes, there is a .htaccess file on the server that won’t handle the link correctly.

I don’t know how I can use the URLs without the “http://” because the link (http://mywebsite.com/_links/add-link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fanotherwebsite.com%2Fpage.html&t=page%title) is being created by javascript using this code:

javascript:location.href='http://americanvalues.org/_links/frame/add-link.php?u=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&t=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title);

(I am tring to make a bookmarklet that adds newlinks to a database.)

add-link.php is the same on both servers; and both servers are running 5.2.16 and 5.2.17.

register_globals is “off” on the server that works and “on” on the server that doesn’t work.

Thanks!

[plintu]

well first thing you should do is turn register globals off for security reasons. next can I see the .htaccess file so I can see what is written that we can alter to make fit for you.

[lcatwebb]

the contents of the htaccess file are:

---

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .xml

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.php
ErrorDocument 403 /notfound.php

---

If I remove the custom error page lines from the htaccess file, the error reads:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /_links/frame/add-link.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[lcatwebb]

I have found the javascript code to remove the colon from the URL and now I can get the variable passed with the URL to echo back on the php page:

encodeURIComponent(document.title).replace(/:/g, ‘’);

[plintu]

well good news sorry I could not help you out there!! But I am glad you got it figured out!

[lcatwebb]

Thanks for your help. I didn’t really figure it out; just found a work around. I don’t know what it is about the web server set up that would make it impossible to pass viariable through the URL…