brion at pobox
Nov 6, 2009, 2:44 AM
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Re: Files and Folder names with spaces - linking issues
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On 10/27/09 12:14 AM, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
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> I am running mediawiki on Linux a box.
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> Here is what I have noticed:
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> [file://G:\TEMP\linktest\test.pdf]
> works fine
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> But when there are spaces in the folder/file name (for example:G:\TEMP\link test\test.pdf):
> [file://G:\TEMP\link%20test\test.pdf]
> does not work
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> However if you add an extra "/" in the file:// keyword like this:
> [file:///G:\TEMP\link%20test\test.pdf]
> works fine.
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> Is this something normal?
Looks normal. After the double-slash the next element is a hostname --
when accessing local paths (such as drive letters on Windows) you need
another slash to imply localhost.
Keep in mind that file: URLs are wildly inconsistent across browsers and
operating systems, so their behavior may not be very consistent for edge
cases where you're not technically doing it right.
-- brion
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