Escaped characters are added to typed URLs

[Randy Frickston]

Sometimes (not all) when I type a URL into the address bar
in IE6, the browser prepends the URL with an escaped space
(for example, "www.mydomain.com" becomes "%
20www.mydomain.com") which, of course, results in "The
page can not be displayed".
To begin with, I believed that this was a personal issue
and that I might simply be highlighting the URL in the
address bar and then clearing it by typing a space before
typing the URL. I modified the method by which I clear the
address bar in several ways. First I started by using a
backspace to clear the bar and then, when that failed, I
started just typing in the URL without bothering to clear
the bar (since the highlightes section is automatically
replaced with whatever I type in).
I discovered that many people are actually having this
problem, though I find no knowledge base articles on the
subject (perhaps a poor search?) and no articles in this
newsgroup.
This has always been a real annoyance for me (thankfully
there are other browsers out there that DON'T do this).
Especially because, when I then try and re-type the URL,
IE keeps ahold of the previously-typed, incorrect URL and
I have to actually close the browser window and open a new
one, in order to retype the correct URL.
Any suggestions?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Sometimes (not all) when I type a URL into the address bar
in IE6, the browser prepends the URL with an escaped space
(for example, "www.mydomain.com" becomes "%
20www.mydomain.com") which, of course, results in "The
page can not be displayed".
To begin with, I believed that this was a personal issue
and that I might simply be highlighting the URL in the
address bar and then clearing it by typing a space before
typing the URL. I modified the method by which I clear the
address bar in several ways. First I started by using a
backspace to clear the bar and then, when that failed, I
started just typing in the URL without bothering to clear
the bar (since the highlightes section is automatically
replaced with whatever I type in).
I discovered that many people are actually having this
problem, though I find no knowledge base articles on the
subject (perhaps a poor search?) and no articles in this
newsgroup.
This has always been a real annoyance for me (thankfully
there are other browsers out there that DON'T do this).
Especially because, when I then try and re-type the URL,
IE keeps ahold of the previously-typed, incorrect URL and
I have to actually close the browser window and open a new
one, in order to retype the correct URL.
Any suggestions?

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[Randy Frickston]

I suppose that I should have put that into my first post.
I've already cleaned all of the systems that I have had
this problem with. No malware, info miners, adware, etc.
I have also seen this on freshly installed operating
systems and have talked with co-workers about this problem
to verify that it's not just me seeing it.

 

[H Leboeuf]

Change your selection of Encoding in your View Menu.

Repair IE
Add/Remove Programs/MS/IE repair....

 

[Guest]

What encoding should I be using? I have been on UNICODE
(UTF-8).
Why would my encoding setting modify my typed URL? And
then, why only once in a while?

 

[H Leboeuf]

The site(s) you view will change it, if you go to an other site that do not
invoke an encoding then your setting will be used.

You can look at the source code and see if the page is coded accordingly.


For example I went to google.com. The source code give me this.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"><title>Google
--

But if I used an other windows to view an other page the encoding may be
different.

Under View/Encoding do you use the autoseclect setting I do not.

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm

 

[Radny Frickston]

Alright, I did reset my encoding... Still don't quite
understand how that should resolve the problem... but
tried it. Cleared out all adware, etc...
Still having the problem.
I also see that there is, at least, one other person who's
come forward with the problem in the last few days (I
believe you responded to that one as well with the same
advice.)

Any further suggestions? Anyone else have any?