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Tech Tip: Web Area does not accept URL path of unencoded folder names
PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 14.x | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: September 30, 2016

4D's Web Area allows a URL to be entered using WA OPEN URL command. But it does not necessarily check when a path is URL encoded. One thing that can be over looked are folders that contain characters that require to be URL encoded. Folders created such as the following are accepted by the OS:



Here is an example of entering a path into the Web Area where it will not work in red :




Tech Tip #76959 - URL Encoding and Decoding in 4D can correct this.

Here is the sample example with the URL encoding that is corrected in green:





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