Please help: In my link the http:// are doubling up !

Hi,

I am trying to construct a link and when I do keep getting a relative
link instead of the url.

This is my code:

<?php $the_file = 'creative_thinking.mp3'; echo "<a href=\"".urlencode(makelink($the_file))."\">Better-Creative-Thinking.mp3</a>"; ?>


The link shows up as:

http://www.mysite.com/sub-dir/https://my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/my-file.mp3?acesskey=hfllghlgflshgsl ...

of course it should not include the relative path but start off with the https.

like this
https://my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/my-file.mp3?acesskey=hfllghlgflshgsl

How can I get it to drop the relative part ?

I thought is was automatically detected when it starts with "http" ?




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What does the makelink function look like
You shouldn't be urlencoding the whole URL either, just the uri at the most

Hi

The makelink() builds up the link,
the last line is this:

$link = "https://{$bucket}.s3.amazonaws.com/{$file}?{$authentication_params}";

I am using a similar link to play a video using a player,

Maybe it is because the "://" are encoded and therefore the "https://" is not being recognised ?

So I need to take the $link and break it up ??

What do you think ?_



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remove the urlencode and see what happens

Thanks, goog idea.


I'll give that a try :)




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