Membership Forms Authentication Does Not Redirect Properly When Directory Name Contains a Space

When you you try to log on to Site Server 3.0 Personalization and Membership with membership authentication on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows 2000, redirection to the requested URL may be unsuccessful if the requested URL contains a directory name that contains a space. The requested URL will contain "%2520" instead of "%20" for a space. You may also receive a 404 error message from Internet Information Services (IIS).

The URL encoding with the Active Server Pages (ASP) Response.Redirect object in IIS 4.0 (on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0) is different from the URL encoding with the ASP Response.Redirect object in IIS 5.0 (on Windows 2000).

If you are using the out-of-box form logon pages (or similar logon pages), locate the Verifpwd.asp file, and then change the following line of codeto:

For additional information about this ASP change, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: