On 16/10/10 19:44, Jochen Topf wrote:
I am currently fighting some issues where tags with strange characters in them need to be represented in a URL for Taginfo. Lots of other websites probably will have similar issues. Characters like /, ?,&, etc. have special meaning in URLs so if they appear in tags I can't have those tags in URLs. Sometimes escaping characters as %XX helps, sometimes not. And those problems are not confined to web pages and URLs only. Special characters that need escaping are often a problem.
I really don't understand the problem here - as far as I know all characters can be used in URLs so long as they are properly escaped. If your server software is not coping with that for some reason then I think it's a bug.
As a test I just created a file called '<>&+?#;%.html' in an apache served directory and then asked Firefox to fetch:
http://server/%3c%3e%26%2b%3f%23%3b%25.html and it was retrieved just fine. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
