[Steveharford]

Other than the usual one where it appears you can't buy more than one packet per order, does anyone know of another supplier  of domestic size quantities of wizard beans to sow in the Autumn?

[mumofstig]

Tuckers sell wizard field beans, but sell the as green manure 
http://tuckers-seeds.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2882

[Steveharford]

Thanks mum. Scuse ignorance but are they the same ?
Lol. Edited from Scouse ignorance to Scuse ignorance. Nothing personal Scousers out there. Bloomin iPhone.....honest !

[mumofstig]

Real Seeds also describe them as Field beans, so would assume they're the same.

It may be worth sending an email to Tuckers to confirm, though 

[Kristen]

The redirecting page is breaking that URL for me.  In case anyone else has trouble changing

&

to

&

in the address bar, or cutting & pasting the URL, will find the correct product.

[mumofstig]

It's weird that 
If you enter FBN01 in their search you should find the beans! (They are there honest! )

[Steveharford]

Yes they do come up when that code entered. Thanks. I will email them to ask the question and report back their response.

[Kristen]

It's weird that 

Not really (to a techie like me!)  "&" has a special meaning in HTML, so it you want to just display an ampersand (e.g. in some text) then the correct HTML to do that is to "escape" it as "&" (there are lots of other "&XXX;" codes - pound signs, publishers quotes, foreign accents and so on).  So I suspect that is what the redirect page is doing.

Personally I don't see the need for a redirect page, and it annoys me every time it comes up (particularly as I can't RightClick OpenInNewTab on the original link  to work around it either)

[Lardman]

It's weird that 

As Kirsten says the redirect page encodes the url ,  but tuckers really should be able to cope. It looks like they're doing some weird URL rewrite based on the &.  If you're a customer you could tell them as it must impact on their links, you might get a free packet as a thank you 

[Kristen]

If you're a customer you could tell them as it must impact on their links, you might get a free packet as a thank you 

Its this site that is doing the encoding that is mangling the URL ...

but its a good point that I suppose their site could handle the "&" ... none of our sites would cope with that though.

I reckon some browsers may silently sort it out?

[Lardman]

but its a good point that I suppose their site could handle the "&" ... none of our sites would cope with that though.

  It depends on what you're doing with the query string I suppose, I'd have thought it only good practise to cope with an encoded version, rather than just bounce you to a 404.

Having said that Im now off to check my sites too  

[Kristen]

Yeah, I agree. But I suspect we are relying on what the system provides us in its array of query string parameters ... rather than splitting it up ourselves, but now you've gone to check your code I will too - getting too blustery outside to do any gardening! ... I reckon we might just have a central routine that deals with splitting the query string and it could as happily split on either delimiter.

I hope we don't actually require & anywhere 

[mumofstig]

Back to Wizard beans please chaps!