why cant i use "currency" in querystring!?

Lasse Edsvik · Jan 14, 2004

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

Curt_C [MVP] · Jan 14, 2004

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

Bob Barrows · Jan 14, 2004

Lasse said:
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

Dave Anderson · Jan 14, 2004

Lasse Edsvik said:
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/global.html#idx-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&currency=<%=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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Ray at · Jan 14, 2004

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

Ray at work

Mark Schupp · Jan 14, 2004

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.QueryString("currency")%><br>
<a href="test.asp?a=2&currency=<%=curr%>"> test</a>
</body>
</html>

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why cant i use "currency" in querystring!?

Lasse Edsvik

Curt_C [MVP]

Bob Barrows

Dave Anderson

Ray at

Mark Schupp

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