Pass url to browser with ampersand with it

[sakej]

Hi you all

I have a problem, when I'm trying to open a browser with a specific url that contains ampersand browsers will cut it where ampersand is.

When I'm trying to encode it with %26 it gets passed as an url but the website says that's the wrong url ;/

link looks like that: http://<IP>/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=<host number>

 

I did try to use

$cmd1 = "start msedge http://<IP>/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&amphost=" & $psdNumber"

Run(@ComSpec & " /c title " & $psdNumber & "&&" & $cmd1 & "&& pause")

 

and also

$url = "http://<IP>/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=" & $psdNumber"

$rc = _RunDos("start " & $url)

 

I've even tried to send it as a special char {&} and as ascii Chr(38) but also no luck...

 

any ideas?

 

Cheers

Edited March 9, 2023 by sakej

[sakej]

If anyone has the same issue in the future, here's how I manage to make it work as expected

 

ShellExecute("http://<ip>/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=" & $psdNumber)

Edited March 9, 2023 by sakej