Spaces in filenames?
Geoff Shang
Geoff at quitelikely.com
Wed Feb 20 21:21:04 UTC 2008
Rob Harris wrote:
> Are spaces allowed in filenames?
Absolutely!
> I shovelled some songs to my web site
> which is running apache and it is giving an error with the link yet the
> names are copied absolutely by a program generating the link list. Do I
> have to modify all the files names and re-run and indeed re-upload all this
> stuff?
URLs cannot contain spaces. You either need to replace them with plus
signs (which I hardly ever see anyone do these days), or escape them as %20
(20 hexadecimal = 32 decimal which is the character number of the space
character). So to post a link to a file called The Beatles - Help.mp3 you
use something like this:
http://yourserver.com/the%20beatles%20-%20help.mp3
If this doesn't answer your question, maybe give us a filename and the URL
for it which doesn't work.
Geoff.
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