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Netscrap

Cerberus · 2000-09-05 15:59:00

Does anyone know why this is so: When you open a file whose name contains spaces, in Netscape, and you give it the full physical address i.e. file///D|//inetpub/wwwroot/spaces in it.htm Netscape opens it. But if you are opening the file from a server i.e http://IPaddress/spaces in it.htm it won't work. It just gives an…

05-09-2000 4:59pm

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Cerberus

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Does anyone know why this is so:
When you open a file whose name contains spaces, in Netscape, and you give it the full physical address i.e. file///D|//inetpub/wwwroot/spaces in it.htm
Netscape opens it. But if you are opening the file from a server i.e http://IPaddress/spaces in it.htm it won't work. It just gives an error about malformed syntax. IE has no problems with filenames containing spaces.

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#2 05-09-2000 6:35pm

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It should work if you replace the spaces with %20

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#3 05-09-2000 6:42pm

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URL's are technically not supposed to have any spaces in them so Netscape is actually doing the "right thing" in conforming to standards there, - albeit that that's not very helpful of it... Just do as Stephen said and replace the spaces with "%20"'s (or URLEncode it if your hyperlink is generated by ASP).
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