Problems with llEscapeURL()

 
string URL = llEscapeURL("http://60.51.111...");
 

The above code compiles but when run the error pops up:

"HTTP URL does not start with http:// or https://"

Any idea why?

(had to make the url an incorrect one with the ".." at the end so the forum didnt mess up the post with tags)

Because llEscapeURL turns it into "http%3A%2F%2F60.51.111...", and presumably you are using that in an llHTTPRequest somewhere. You don't want to escape a whole URL, just any parameters that might have special characters in them.

ex:
reqid = llHTTPRequest( URL + "?terse=1&name=" + llEscapeURL(NAME), [], "" );

Also, there is an "automatically parse links in text" box below the first set of buttons that you can uncheck when posting to avoid the automatic tags.

thank you much, and yea i tried unchecking that box, didnt help