Spearmaster wrote:
That being said, I still don’t see any place for pipes or other unusual characters in an URL. The sensible thing would be to ask Referback to remove that type of coding immediately, rather than harp on about whether or not this was intentional. Especially as it won’t be long before IE7 becomes the norm.
In the meantime, do as I have recommended many times in the past – either use their standard URLs without the double pipes – or remove them altogether until they fix this issue.
They have to remove all the marketing banners/text-links so new affiliates don’t use them and modify their functions to pase the questionable string correctly (for existing sites still using them) and then check it all for cross browser compatibilty.
I always check code with multiple browsers. If I remember correctly, the problem with IE is you can’t have two different versions installed at the same time unlike the other browsers.