Hello,

I'm running into an issue where the URL I need to target within an iframe has a colon as part of the URL.
Yes, that sounds funny when read aloud.

Anyways, it won't display.

Here is the page:
http://www.trmprecision.com/forums.html

Here is the target:
http://trmprecision.com/trmprecision/w/ … :WikiForum

Here is the iframe code inserted into RSD:
<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style>

<div class='embed-container'>
<iframe src="http://trmprecision.com/trmprecision/w/index.php/Special:WikiForum" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0"></iframe>
</div>

I'm using MediaWiki for a wiki as well as a forum. But MediaWiki uses 'special pages' which then contain a colon and a description page as the URL.

Any ideas?

Hi Christopher,
Try escaping the colon.
src="http://trmprecision.com/trmprecision/w/index.php/Special"/ : /"WikiForum"
I have a space on each side of the colon because the forum, wants to put an emoticon in it. Leave the spaces out in actual use.

Hello Eric,

That doesn't seem to work either. I've also tried escaping it with different methods as well. Tried messing with doing the quotes a few different ways as well.

What happens weird. It passes the escape characters to the wiki/forum code and tries to generate a 'special' page with those characters.

I could be doing something wrong, but nothing seems to be working.

Is there a way to wrap this URL code elsewhere, and then pass that info the iframe as src?

looks like you can't iframe the wiki. I think that's the same for other sites like google.

Just a thought, but not tested: could perhaps the url be converted using https://bitly.com/ ?

It is worth checking, however, whether such use of the Wikiforum site is permissible even if this method makes it technically possible.

Frank

This was a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Same blank page.
Guess I'll just pop the user's out when it comes to the forum and wiki, or select a different forum and wiki... hmm.