Forward Slash Error (v10.01 Pro)

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Forward Slash Error (v10.01 Pro)

Post by paulp575 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:33 pm

I've just updated to version 10.01 PRO and am getting the following error:

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It appears that two (or more) consecutive forward slash characters ("//") were used in this URL where only one should have been used. This may cause problems in some browsers. Please check the link.
Here's the line that's causing the error:

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<a href="http://www.co.garfield.wa.us/sites/co.garfield.wa.us/files//ORD%2013868.pdf" target="_blank">Garfield County</a>
This is an XHTML strict document type (required by Google Maps API):

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Seems like this is not really an error. Aren't the two forward slashes are required?

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Re: Forward Slash Error (v10.01 Pro)

Post by John Zeman » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:52 pm

I would imagine the error is caused by the two slashes between "files" and "ORD%2013868.pdf"

files//ORD%2013868.pdf

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Re: Forward Slash Error (v10.01 Pro)

Post by paulp575 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:45 pm

John Zeman wrote:I would imagine the error is caused by the two slashes between "files" and "ORD%2013868.pdf"

files//ORD%2013868.pdf

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Oops!!! I was focusing on the first two slashes - didn't even see the second pair!
Unfortunately that's the exact URL from the web site so I'll just ignore the error (and get new glasses!).
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Re: Forward Slash Error (v10.01 Pro)

Post by Albert Wiersch » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:02 pm

paulp575 wrote:Oops!!! I was focusing on the first two slashes - didn't even see the second pair!
Unfortunately that's the exact URL from the web site so I'll just ignore the error (and get new glasses!).
I suspect it is an error on their part... it seems to also work when the double slash is removed:

http://www.co.garfield.wa.us/sites/co.g ... 013868.pdf
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Re: Forward Slash Error (v10.01 Pro)

Post by paulp575 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:21 pm

Albert Wiersch wrote: I suspect it is an error on their part... it seems to also work when the double slash is removed:

http://www.co.garfield.wa.us/sites/co.g ... 013868.pdf
Great! I'm going to remove the double slash - just one less error to look at!

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