Monday, December 6, 2010

Assignment #6 - Webpage Problem in Blogspot

By clicking the link below, you will be directed to an error page on the University of Pittsburgh website instead of my website. This appears to be caused by an error in Blogspot that I cannot fix. The URL below is correct, but Blogspot all of the sudden doesn't seem to be able to interpret the ~ symbol and is changing the source URL from http://www.pitt.edu/~btm32/  to http://www.pitt.edu/%7Ebtm32/

To confirm this, right click on my link below, click "Copy Link Location", and paste it into a web browser. You will see that the incorrect URL shows up, though when you click enter, it appears to try to redirect to the correct page (though it displays the error message).

If you manually type the URL into your web browser, you will be directed to the correct page. It appears this error is in Blogspot and it's one I just noticed this evening. This wasn't a problem when I first uploaded my page to Blogspot on November 17. I tested the links then as well as when I re-uploaded my page on November 22 after Jiepu's e-mail encouraging revisions.