[plug] Apache doesnt like filenames with spaces

[Colin Muller]

I've just checked RFC 2396 (Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic
Syntax), which says:

"
   The space character is excluded because significant spaces may
   disappear and insignificant spaces may be introduced when URI are
   transcribed or typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-
   processing programs.  Whitespace is also used to delimit URI in many
   contexts.

   space       = <US-ASCII coded character 20 hexadecimal>
"

So my (and your) understanding that spaces could be encoded with %20 was
wrong: they shouldn't be used at all, ever, in a URI. SO it turns out
that Netscape is following the standard while IE5 is breaking it
(surprise!).

Colin

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 
> > OK, I understand that spaces break the HTTP syntax, but I'm talking HTML
> > here.
> 
> You should actually URL-encode the HTML.  So your HTML code will literally
> have <a href="space%20here.gif">
> 
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