OLEXP: Outlook Express Renders URL in Meeting Request with Special Characters Incorrectly (307005)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 for Windows NT 4.0 SP 1
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 for Windows Millennium Edition SP 1
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 for Windows Millennium Edition SP 1
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 for Windows Millennium Edition SP 2
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 for Windows Millennium Edition
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 for Windows 2000 SP 1
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.01 for Windows 2000 SP 2
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 for Windows 2000
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 for Windows Millennium Edition
This article was previously published under Q307005 For information about the differences between Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express e-mail clients, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 257824 OL2000: Differences Between Outlook and Outlook Express SYMPTOMS
When you receive a meeting request from Microsoft Outlook in Outlook Express, the message contains a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) with the subject of the meeting. If you click this message to attempt to open the calendar item in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), you may receive one of the following error messages:
Request not found
Page cannot be displayed
CAUSE
This problem can occur if the subject contains special characters (such as punctuation marks) or extended ASCII characters (for example, ?<>[]{}&).
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, either make sure that meeting organizers do not include special characters in meeting subjects, or cut the URL from the message and paste the URL into your browser to open the meeting notice successfully.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 6/30/2004 |
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| Keywords: | kbbug kberrmsg kbnofix KB307005 |
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