IECapt does not work when --url contains a query string

[ziggaloop]

No thumbnail generated when the URL contains a querystring such as: http://mydomain.com?page_id=8

Anyone know of a solution or workaround?

[Quinn]

Ya this is extremely annoying. I have not been able to find a solution yet.

It's to bad there is no development going on with this script.

[agent47]

Try replacing this line: @exec('IECapt.exe ' . escapeshellarg($website_url) . ' ' . escapeshellarg($cached_filename));

With this: $output = shell_exec('IECapt --url='.$website_url.' --out=' .$cached_filename);

So far it is working for me with all files, even with query strings.

Hope this helps some people.  It took me a while to get it working right.

[FarmerCharlie]

Try replacing this line: @exec('IECapt.exe ' . escapeshellarg($website_url) . ' ' . escapeshellarg($cached_filename));

With this: $output = shell_exec('IECapt --url='.$website_url.' --out=' .$cached_filename);

Could you elaborate a little on this?
For example, If I use this command:
iecapt --url=http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=32.6240057686166&lon=-85.45042097568512&zoom=13 --out=test3.jpeg
I get an error message presumably because it has a query.

Iecapt works fine for me for regular URLs.

[FarmerCharlie]

I found a work-around for this by using TinyURL <www.tinyurl.com> to create a standard URL from the url with the query.
This command worked fine.
iecapt --url=http://tinyurl.com/28pnkvl --out=test7.jpeg --delay=5000
I added the delay to give enough time for the map to display.

iecapt is a pretty neat app.

Charles

[jexley]

I switched those lines (above) in my PHP code and it worked a treat.

I know this thread is old, but I found it at the top of Googs and wanted to let others know what's working.

Cheers!

[FarmerCharlie]

Which did you use?  The PHP code or my TinyURL work-around?
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