IE6 Losing Querystring

Question

I have a page that grabs values from the query string using javascript window.location. This works fine when run from a webserver but if I run it locally using IE6 by putting this in the address bar

c:\mysite\index.htm

Any query strings the site creates get lost and window.location just contains the location upto .htm.

I realize the example above has no query string but that page links off to pages that do. This also fails when running from a network share e.g \\server\mysite\index.htm. It seems to work fine in IE7+ and only fails in IE6.

Any ideas it's driving me crazy.

Edit : I've jsut realised this is happening on a modal window does that make any difference?

Answer 1

This could be a security issue in IE6. The only thing I can think of is using a HTA instead of a HTML file. Is that an option?

Answer 2

Are you aware that window.location is not a simple string, but a structured object with fields? The querystring is in window.location.search - apparently IE6 simply does not include that part when printing the parent object.

Answer 3

Query strings explicitly do not exist for URIs of the scheme ‘file’. See RFC1738. It makes no sense to put a ?query on the end of a ‘file:’ URI.

If you want to include extra location information available to scripts on the page, use a #fragment identifier and location.hash.

Answer 4

It seems that IE6 disregards any querystrings when running locally on modal windows. Got around the problem by passing the variables into the modal window as dialog arguments rather than querystrings.