"Tracking URL" with special characters does not work in Outlook 2007

[newsfish]

Hi Stefano,

after a newsletter a subscriber told me he cannot click on a link of an article. Now I found out he uses Outlook 2007. But why does the link not work?

I compared some links in the newsletter and I found out that it could be connected to special characters in the URL. The problem-link has at the end

http://www….com/?nltr=MTE4OzQyMzU7…pY2h0LTIvOw%3D%3D

which is in real

http://www….com/?nltr=MTE4OzQyMzU7…pY2h0LTIvOw==

So perhaps Outlook 2007 has a problem with these “=” in the url. Could you please avoid such special characters in the new “Tracking URL”?

Thanks!

[Stefano]

Actually the code uses the PHP urlencode, maybe there are version of PHP (or a “bug”) so the = is not encoded. I’ll check it.

[newsfish]

Hi Stefano,

thanks. But the “=” is encoded I think, because on mouse-over in Outlook 2010 it is shown as above mentioned. Perhaps Outlook 2007 hat a problem with these encoded special-characters in URLs?

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