[NonValueAdded]

Sandbox results:

https://freerepublic.com/perl/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm%E2%80%9D\ resulting in a 404.

And now I know why. I wrote my article in Open Office then copied and pasted it into the post. OO Writer auto-formatted the double quotes as left and right in my embedded HTML. When you do the link with straight double quotes, it works. When you use the formatted left and right quotes, you get the above.

Ciao, NVA

[logi_cal869]

Thanks for that.

Mystery solv-ed.

I knew there was a reason, but I never addressed the ‘why?’.