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POspaces or %20 in links turn into + signs when page is sent as an email
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copied!<p>I am creating a web app that accepts input of news items (title, article, url). It has a page <code>news.php</code> which creates a summary of all news items inputted for specified dates, like so:</p> <pre><code>News 4/25/2010 Title 1 [URL 1] Article 1 Title 2 [URL 2] Article 2 </code></pre> <p>and so on...</p> <p>I have two other pages, namely <code>preview.php</code> and <code>send.php</code> , both of which call news.php through a <code>file_get_contents()</code> call.</p> <p>Everything works fine except when the URL contains spaces. During Preview, the urls get opened (FF: spaces are spaces, Chrome: spaces are %20). However, during Send, when received as emails, the urls don't get opened, because the spaces are converted into + signs.</p> <p>For example:</p> <blockquote> <ol> <li>Preview in FF: <a href="http://www.example.com/this" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/this</a> is the link.html</li> <li>Preview in Chrome: <a href="http://www.example.com/this%20is%20the%20link.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/this%20is%20the%20link.html</a></li> <li>Viewed as email in both browsers: <a href="http://www.example.com/this+is+the+link.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/this+is+the+link.html</a></li> </ol> </blockquote> <p>Only #3 doesn't work (link doesn't get opened).</p> <p>Why are the spaces in the urls correct (spaces or %20) when previewed, but incorrect (+) when received in the emails, when in fact, the same page is generated by the same news.php?</p> <p>Any help appreciated :)</p> <hr> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>preview.php:</p> <pre><code>$HTML_version = file_get_contents('news.php'); echo $HTML_version; </code></pre> <p>send.php</p> <pre><code>$HTML_version = file_get_contents('news.php'); $body = "$notice_text --$mime_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit $TEXT_version --$mime_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit $HTML_version --$mime_boundary--"; //some other code here to send the email </code></pre> <p>news.php:</p> <pre><code><a href="<?php echo $url ?>">attachment</a> //the $url there contains spaces </code></pre>

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