second colon in URL - encoding problem

[afreed]

I'm working with Contribute 3. I'm linking to some pages that go through a
proxy, so the URL has two colons in it, like this:

[url]http://proxy.com/url?=http://intranet.com[/url]
but when you publish it, you get
[url]http://proxy.com/url?=http%3Aintranet.com[/url]

is there any way to preven the character encoding on the second colon? It
prevents the link from working correctly.

[mgm36]

Me too - any resolution to this?

[afreed]

I really wish someone would fix this. I'm tired of getting calls from people who need me to fix URLs in dreamweaver because Contribute can't write a second colon. Even using Update 3.1

[afreed]

I really wish someone would fix this. I'm tired of getting calls from people who need me to fix URLs in dreamweaver because Contribute can't write a second colon. Even using Update 3.1

[jedonline]

Anyone know a fix for this? I'm having to correct way too many links in Dreamweaver these days and the natives are getting restless.

[mgm36]

I had started a thread about this awhile ago - so let me tell you what I've
found out from contribute so far. I contacted their tech support, they
recognize this as a bug and it has been assigned to the engineering team (and
from what I understand is in the process of being fixed). However, they could
not give me any time frame as to when the next major or minor release of
contribute would come out, so it may be a bit of a wait.

In the meantime, the suggestion was to allow editing in an external
application - so you need to open your page in dreamweaver or notepad or
something and then manually fix the characters in the link. Which of course,
is a ton of work, as you've found out!

Sorry, I don't have more specifics but this was all they could give our team.
We're having quite a lot of trouble with it too.