Re: [SLUG] File names with spaces irritant

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 11:45:07 EST


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Levi Bard wrote:

> > > Is it the far end that is not encoding them properly, i.e. the Exchange or the
> > > OWA piece? If so I think I may be able to get it fixed, but not sure.
> >
> > Hmm, I just tried it with Konquerer, it opens the files just fine, so it must be
> > some setting or a "feature" in firefox....
>
> I would guess that konqueror has some functionality to try to reencode
> broken/nonstandard urls: e.g. change " " to "%20d" (or whatever, I
> don't remember the actual code).

Yes, %20 is space. In general, a character is %xy where xy is the
hexadecimal conversion of the ASCII number for that character. I don't
_think_ case matters, but maybe I've dealt with unusually tolerant servers
and clients.

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