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Bookmarklet - Adding a feed with spaces in the URL
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11/14/11 7:41 PM
When adding a feed with the bookmarklets tool, the feed will fail to retrieve contacts if there are spaces in the URL string.  - Example, go to search.twitter.com and search for "Cisco SocialMiner", add it to a feed using the Feed Bookmarlet tool, then assign the feed to a campaign. The feed will time out with a generic network failure error.  Manually editing the feed URL and replacing the spaces with "%20" will correct the issue. Can the Feed Bookmarklet tool be modified to automatically replace spaces?
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RE: Bookmarklet - Adding a feed with spaces in the URL
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11/14/11 8:07 PM as a reply to Scott Baumann.
I just tried with "Cisco SocialMiner".  It's working for me even though we display the URL with a space.
 
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=Cisco SocialMiner
 
I know we discussed this space and there were a few differing opinions on how we store vs display.  (Should we display in way that makes it look easy to read and show the space or should we escape and do %20...)
 
What Browser are you using?  Have you tried it with Firefox?
 
Also, can you please tell us what version of SM you are using (log in as admin, go to admin tab, provide us the number)
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RE: Bookmarklet - Adding a feed with spaces in the URL
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11/14/11 8:04 PM as a reply to Tod Famous.
Interestingingly, when go to search.twitter.com for Cisco SocialMiner with Chrome the resulting URL on the address bar appears as:
 
http://twitter.com/#!/search/Cisco%20SocialMiner
 
On Firefox it appears as like this:
twitter.com/#!/search/Cisco SocialMiner
 
But if you copy and past from firefox it appears as:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/Cisco%20SocialMiner
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