AOL AIM Profile - problem with %n (screenname)

plaggypig

Hey,

I'm having a problem with passing the screenname (%n) variable from my AOL AIM profile to my PHP script. It seems to work perfectly fine unless my screenname is formatted with a whitespace somewhere in it. And when it is I get this error, "Error Loading Content".

The link in my profile looks like this:
http://mydomain.co.uk/z.php?sn=%n
... which AIM translates into:
http://mydomain.co.uk/z.php?sn=plaggy pig

The error in my web server log looks like this:
[Sun Dec 22 19:01:36 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /z.php?v=plaggy pig HTTP/1.0

AIM is obviously not encoding URLs properly, but I was just wondering whether anybody knew of a way to relax Apache in such a way that I could get around it.

My Apache is set-up like this:
Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_perl/1.27 mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6e

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Andy.

mikeatrpi

What happens if you add quotes?

http://mydomain.co.uk/z.php?sn="%n"

plaggypig

I've tried that but no joy. Actually, I had it working about a year ago (with single quote marks wrapping the screen name as you suggest) but I realise why it's not working anymore (since Apache 1.3.26):

http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020617.txt

Andy.