Posted by frederick on 11/18/42 11:45

Michael Winter wrote:
> On 20/04/2006 14:30, frederick wrote:
>
> > http://www.prbm.com/interest/i.htm?manuscripts-d-f.shtml~main
> >
> > Can anyone enlighten me as to use of the "~main" at the end?
>
> Notice that it's part of the query string? It can mean whatever
> /interest/i.htm wants it to mean.
>
> In this case, the frameset page (/interest/i.htm) uses some rather
> badly-written client-side code to load its content frame from the query
> string. The tilde (~) acts as a separator between the document URL and
> the name of the frame to load.

I should've figured that it was for the frame... {sigh}

I'd never come across a tilde as part of a query string before, and was
wondering if it was indicative of a particular technology being used
somewhere on the server side, such as language X or vendor's script Y.

> This can be done, and should have been, server-side (though omitting
> frames altogether would be the best option).

Particularly when they're badly implemented: I can't see the bottom
part of the left-hand menu! When will these people ever learn...

Anyway, thanks!


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AGw.

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