“Send To” Email a Link – Error in WSSv3

Recently a coworker of mine was trying to send out links to a presentation that she just presented on. Being the Savvy Information Worker that she is she was using the Send To -> E-mail a Link menu built into WSSv3.

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However, the people she was sending to had said that they were not able to open any of the links. Upon some investigation I had found that when the links were emailed the URL’s were getting messed up. Where there should have been period’s there were %20’s. Example:

What should have been – http://YourMOSS.com/document.doc

Looked like this – http://YourMOSS%20com/document%20doc

Obviously this is an issued. I did a bit of research and found this KB Article on http://support.microsoft.com. I requested the hotfix from the Microsoft Hot Fix Request Page, applied it and was done. There wasn’t even a need for a restart.

All is well and my coworker is happily able to E-mail out links without any problems.