AOL Instant Messenger .. passing var.

[Anon]

I'm writing a simple script to go in my profile of my AIM and the link passes the screen name of the user that clicks the link using %n. AIM doesn't urlencode the variable and spaces screw things up. I was wondering if you know what I can do.

For instance ...

<a href="http://myurl/somepage.php?ref=%n">

where %n is the screen name of the user. If %n = "Some Name" with a space in it, the var I get in sompage.php is just "Some". If I copy the link from the AIM profile to my clipboard and past it, it works fine.

Any idea?

[Anon]

Yep I came across the same problem, it reviled me.

$aim_sn = $HTTP_GET_VARS['aim_sn'];
$aim_sn .= $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SERVER_PROTOCOL'];

Try that, it seems to work for me under Apache 1.3.20.

Andy.

[Anon]

you are awesome!