And what has this got to do with Servlets...
As for the problem, IE automatically does encoding of the URL for you (
adding %20 for the space.. ) but Netscape does not do it. Spaces are not
permitted in URLs. So you need to encode the URL before it is used by
netscape.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manish Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] IE and Netscape
> hi everyone,
> I have been writing these pages in frontpage which has
> link to websphere and VAJ redbbooks in pdf format on a
> local server. the webserver is IIS and I am using
> frontpage 98 to publish the pages.
>
> The links to the pdf file work under IE and doesnt
> under Netscape.most of these file names have blanks in
> them.
> when cheking the url's i can see that IE puts a %20
> for the blanks and so does Netscape but then why cant
> netscape access these file urls eg...
> file://nt2/IBM Java/Redbooks/Webshphere Example.pdf
>
> I was just wondering whether the problem is with
> Netscape or the way Frontpage publishes these
> pages..but that shouldnt make any diff..its HTML
> anyway..
> goodnight everyone..hope to hear from you in the
> morning
> take care
> manish
>
>
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