To work around some problems I modified the utility at one point to ask for the location of a movie each time it's loaded. The main reason being the difficulty in writing any kind of JavaScript that works cross-browser/cross-platform that can determine the location of the movie automatically. To do this I used a standard HTML form with a file input. Upon submission I grab the value of the file input element and redirect to a page. In order to avoid URL problems I was using the
escape() method to URL encode the filename.
Unfortunately, the
escape() method does not encode the plus (+) character which, though rarely used, has been encountered in a filename. A little research led me to some new methods available as of JavaScript v1.5. I've modified the script to use the
encodeURIComponent() method if available and the
escape() method as a fallback.
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