I need to punch something!!!

I just spent 3 hours debugging (aswell as a few other hours the last few days) a problem a buyer was having with my newsmail subscriber. It wasn’t sending emails from certain php files but was from others. And after all that debugging, do you know what I discovered it boiled down to… The BLOODY COLONS in the URLS that are displayed in the email… COLONS !? Come…ooooon…

What’s worse is I can’t replace the colons with “%3A” because percent signs stop emails from being sent too!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr this is the most fraustrating case I have ever come accross. This person is using godaddy, and my php app has worked with many other people who use this service… Just not this guy… Is he in an “annoy PHP developer” server or something?

... * deep breath *

Basically, has anyone got any ideas to solve the colon problem? I’m going to try a few different things, adding the colon with different charsets etc.

So anyway, purpose of this thread, what annoying debugging experiences or odd cases have you had? Or, have you got any ideas for a resolution to my problem

3 hours for a colon

can’t you just export all the contacts and important settings then remove everything and start again?

It sounds a lot but could it be just a corrupt file or server issue?

seeing if that fixes the problem

3 hours for a colon

can’t you just export all the contacts and important settings then remove everything and start again?

It sounds a lot but could it be just a corrupt file or server issue?

seeing if that fixes the problem

Firstly, did you really need to blockquote that?

Secondly, no Richard, none of what you said makes any sense

1. no

2. and yeh reading it back, no it didn’t make any sense

what i was trying to explain was that, is it just a server issue. That clearing it out and replacing the files back in may fix?

Debugging case,

My Blog wasn’t working and so was trying to find out why, all came down to MySQL not being written correctly to the web server

Colons are quite problematic sometimes

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Mihai_Sorohan – LOL

I was thinking along the same lines & was going to recommend more fiber.

Hey for that reason i got myself a punching-bag.

I just give it a couple good combos and i feel much better.

Anyhow, Have a great X-mass

Cheers

Hi Reaper. I suppose you did something like this, but just in case, did you try parsing/replacing the strings? I solved many problems with characters and PHP with this little function from Soulwire. Maybe could be useful:

http://pastie.org/755752

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