why cant i use "currency" in querystring!?

Lasse Edsvik

can you guys please tell me why i cant use currency as a name in my
querystring?

note: i NEED to use it since i'll be linking to a remote site were they get
that info from querystring

<%
curr="SEK"
%>
<html>
<body>
?a=2&currency=< %=curr%>
</body>
</html>
shows up as:

?a=2¤cy=SEK

wtf?
/Lasse

Jul 19 '05 #1

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Curt_C [MVP]

are you encoding this?
&curr is the code for the $ isn't it?

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Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
www.Darkfalz.com
"Lasse Edsvik" <la***@nospam.c om> wrote in message
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can you guys please tell me why i cant use currency as a name in my
querystring?

note: i NEED to use it since i'll be linking to a remote site were they get that info from querystring

<%
curr="SEK"
%>
<html>
<body>
?a=2&currency=< %=curr%>
</body>
</html>
shows up as:

?a=2¤cy=SEK

wtf?
/Lasse

Jul 19 '05 #2

Bob Barrows

Lasse Edsvik wrote:

can you guys please tell me why i cant use currency as a name in my
querystring?

note: i NEED to use it since i'll be linking to a remote site were
they get that info from querystring

<%
curr="SEK"
%>
<html>
<body>
?a=2&currency=< %=curr%>
</body>
</html>
shows up as:

?a=2¤cy=SEK

wtf?
/Lasse

The problem isn't that you cannot use "currency" in your querystring: the
problem is that the compiler thinks you are trying to use the &curren
character code.

See this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212704

HTH,
Bob Barrows
--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

Jul 19 '05 #3

Dave Anderson

"Lasse Edsvik" wrote:

can you guys please tell me why i cant use currency as a
name in my querystring?
The Entity Sets for HTML 4:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/...dx-entity_sets

From the Latin-1 entity (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/HTMLlat1.ent):

<!ENTITY curren CDATA "¤" -- currency sign, U+00A4 ISOnum -->
... ?a=2&currency=< %=curr%> ...

I think you're up against a browser bug** here, since named entities are
supposed to end with a semicolon. Fortunately, you can get around it by
using:

?a=2&curren cy=<%=curr%>

**I know, I know -- Microsoft does it this way to accommodate sloppy HTML.
Other browsers are not so forgiving. But that's a two-edged sword, don't you
think?
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Dave Anderson

Unsolicited commercial email will be read at a cost of $500 per message. Use
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me directly or ask me to contact you directly for assistance. If your
question is worth asking, it's worth posting.

Jul 19 '05 #4

Ray at

The bogus fix would be to just list currency first in your querystring.

Ray at work

"Lasse Edsvik" <la***@nospam.c om> wrote in message
news:ey******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...

can you guys please tell me why i cant use currency as a name in my
querystring?

note: i NEED to use it since i'll be linking to a remote site were they get that info from querystring

<%
curr="SEK"
%>
<html>
<body>
?a=2&currency=< %=curr%>
</body>
</html>
shows up as:

?a=2¤cy=SEK

wtf?
/Lasse

Jul 19 '05 #5

Mark Schupp

did you actually test it in a link

The following works fine in IE6, NS4.7, and NS6.2

----TEST.ASP----
<%
curr="SEK"
%>
<html>
<body>
<%="a="&Request .QueryString("a ")%><br>
<%="currency="& Request.QuerySt ring("currency" )%><br>
<a href="test.asp? a=2&currency=<% =curr%>"> test</a>
</body>
</html>
--
Mark Schupp
Head of Development
Integrity eLearning
www.ielearning.com
"Lasse Edsvik" <la***@nospam.c om> wrote in message
news:ey******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...

can you guys please tell me why i cant use currency as a name in my
querystring?

note: i NEED to use it since i'll be linking to a remote site were they get that info from querystring

<%
curr="SEK"
%>
<html>
<body>
?a=2&currency=< %=curr%>
</body>
</html>
shows up as:

?a=2¤cy=SEK

wtf?
/Lasse

Jul 19 '05 #6

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