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July 02, 2003
URIness
It seems that my original attempt at making useful URLs was only half-complete on this site. James pointed out today that my links (on the Recent Entry side of things) were not URI compliant. Odd. Upon inspection he was right, and I began to work towards correcting this. Now for wackiness that is Moveable Type.
I found the entry under "Weblog Config"->Archiving to alter. I set the MTEntryTitle flag to have the encode_url value to 1. This should work on any new input (this post being a test of that theory), but it didn't correct the recent postings problem. With this in mind, I began to search for a way to alter this.
Under the Templates->Main page, I discovered the Recent Entry portion. Setting the encode_url value to one here caused adverse effects. Mainly, the entire URL was repeated twice in the space, while properly escaping the Title portion. This really isn't useful as no file on my backend has a title that consists of "http://" as of yet.
Any readers good with MT hacking have a suggestion?
Posted by Dan at July 2, 2003 02:49 PM