[plug] Apache doesnt like filenames with spaces

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Mon Mar 6 17:02:50 WST 2000


Colin Muller wrote:
> 
> 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

Um, to be pedantic, a %20 in a URL is %20, until whatever's at the other end
decodes it and translates it into a filename. ie; it's "some escaped character,
to be decoded later on". ^_^

I think it used to be part of the standard to use + for spaces, although that
may have only been for the QUERY_STRING part of the line. Hmm. Netscape 4.7
still DOES use + for space in QUERY_STRING. ^_^

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