> With the help of the group, I am now able to upload files to my server and > get the orignal name of the file. > > What I do is then store the name of the file and the directory of where it > is being placed in a database. When the user goes to the summary page, I > query the database and build a list of the files he has uploaded with links > to the files built from the information in the database. Now, a problem has > come up in that if the file name has spaces such as: 120004 task list.xls I > am not able to display the file or even download it for the user. I think > it has something with these spaces in the file name. Not sure how these > space play when they are on a url line. >
Spaces in an URL must be escaped as %20. When you inside of an attribute which is a URL Embperl will do this for you, as long as you don't have $escmode set to 0. When you construct your URL somewhere, where Embperl cannot recognize it as URL, you need to escape it on your own. You can use the method Escape of Embperl request object (so far undocumentated, but hopefully this changes soon) [- $r = shift ; # get Embperl's request object $url = $r -> Escape ($unescaped, 2) ; # use 2 for url escaping and 1 for html escaping -] Gerald P.S. You can also run into trouble with spaces if you pass the filename to any system command. In this case you have to quote it. ------------------------------------------------------------- Gerald Richter ecos electronic communication services gmbh Internetconnect * Webserver/-design/-datenbanken * Consulting Post: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim b. Mainz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +49 6133 925131 WWW: http://www.ecos.de Fax: +49 6133 925152 ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
