WaltS48 wrote on 1/22/2015 11:07 AM:
On 01/22/2015 10:47 AM, Ray_Net wrote:
Ed Mullen wrote on 22/01/2015 03:09:
»Q« wrote on 1/21/2015 9:00 PM:
In <news:bawdnsvq1od3ayljnz2dnuu7-ywdn...@mozilla.org>,
Ed Mullen <ejevo...@edmullen.net> wrote:
I compose an email to myself with a URL in it ala:
<http://edmullen.net/temp/Stan Rogers - The Witch of the
Westmorland.mp3>
When I send and view the email and hover over the link, the status
bar shows the URL with the spaces removed. If I view the source the
spaces are indeed gone.
Is this new? Normal?
I dunno about new, but according to RFC 3986 (Appendix C) it's what
should happen, i.e., unencoded whitespace should be ignored when
parsing URLs. Whitespace (including line breaks) breaks up URLs, so
removing it is the way to put them back together again.
Able to be defeated?
I expect it's deep in the heart of Gecko and can't be overridden.
IME the quickest way to get the whitespaces encoded is what Ray
suggested, entering the URL in the address bar, then copying it from
the address bar.
Well, I have no recorded history but I do believe this used to work.
I've been putting files on my servers with spaces for years and
sending the URLs to people in emails.
I don't believe an email client should be altering content at all.
It's simply wrong. If I want to send a text stream in a conversation
should the email client alter my content? No! It should not.
What next? I explicitly type WTFO and SeaMonky changes that to "What
The Furry Over?"
Hey, it's my freaking message.
Anyway I always think that putting spaces in a filename is a bad habit.
(in the past, this was not possible ... Microsoft impose us this way of
naming by creating per exemple the C:\Program Files\ directory.
"Never, ever use spaces in file and directory names! Windows operating
systems do allow spaces and even seem to encourage you to use them, but
UNIX operating systems (which run most servers) have problems with them."
REF: [HTML Tip: What's In A (File)
Name?](http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/html_no6.htm)
Now I'm off to rename all my files with spaces.
No files that are publicly accessible on my sites have spaces in them.
In this case a friend asked for an mp3 file. The file is simply on my
server: It is not linked to on amy site.
On my Windows systems most of my folders and files have spaces in the
names. Much easier to read. Hence, the mp3 file does. Now I suppose
I'll have to rename the files to take out the spaces.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Deja Boo: I wasn't scared before but I am now.
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