Re: 404 errors and html file names with "&" and "+" in them

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

Hi Steve!

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Steve Rudd wrote:

> The actual file name is:
> f-10com-Hus&Wifes.htm
> 
> Are there certain characters that one should avoid in file names?

In general you should avoid everything but A-Za-z0-9 and '.'.
All other characters have to be replaced in urls with %<hex ascii code>.
Space may be replaced by '+'.

You may use something like this in perl code:

        $url =~ s/([^A-Za-z0-9 ])/ '%' . unpack("H2", $1) /gex;
        $url =~ s/ /+/g;

Hmm. I also replace the dot, *goingtofixthis*.

HTH,

					yours,
					peter
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