Friday, November 27, 2009

Groups folder name weirdness with [~] and IE7.0?

I thought I discovered a Yahoo Groups problem or bug



with using the [~] character as part of Folder or file names.



We moved our last year's team files to archive folders



that were named [~2006-2007].



This unique character was used as a prefix,



since this character is the very last



in the alpha sorting sequence....



the folders then appear at the end... like XYZ~.



However, when clicking on these [~] named folders



and attempting to click the old files contained within them,



we encounter an error - "404 - file not found".



I thought that Yahoo Groups was not properly handling



the [~] character, because everything works fine



when we rename the folders without the [~].



BUT - this is the weird part -



Every thing works ok when using a different browser.



Using IE 7.0 - gives me the error - file not found.



Using FireFox - everything works ok



Using IE 6.0 - everything works ok



SO - is this a weird bug between IE 7.0 %26amp; Yahoo Groups pathing ?



Groups folder name weirdness with [~] and IE7.0?web browser



Sounds like a bug to me. Contact customer service and they can help you get it straightened out.

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