url going to lowercase and needs www?

[lwu81]

I'm using MediaLab version 2006.2.13

I'm trying to use the html item type to direct to a java program we have hosted at our school (http://depts.washington.edu/psyscape/EMA)

I've encountered two problems,

1) if I don't put in a "www" the file, it searches for the location on my harddrive (relative to where I have the questionnaire file saved). This is okay in this case, since adding www before dept redirects to the correct address I think, but it was a little tough to figure out.

2) the url is case sensitive, it has to have "EMA" at the end, and medialab seems to be converting it to all lower case. How do I get this to stop?

[jarvis24]

Are you calling the URL from an experiment (.exp) file or a questionnaire (.que) file? If the former, try the latter and see if that helps one or both of these issues.

[lwu81]

I'm calling the url from a questionnaire file, and it still does not work.

[jarvis24]

Will look into this. Here is a possible short term fix for now. Create a simple text file that contains the following:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://depts.washington.edu/psyscape/EMA">

Save the file in your experiment folder and call it "ema.htm" or something like that (see attached sample). Then call that file instead. It will automatically redirect MediaLab to the proper URL regardless of whether www is contained in the address and regardless of case.