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- From: lars@mistral.co.uk (Lars Janssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: AMosaic and Downloading Files with ▀ in there names
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:55:55 GMT
- Organization: Mistral Internet (Brighton)
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- Kevin Cowans (kevin@kncowans.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >
- > I have just noticed another peculiarity (BUG) with AMosaic 2 Pre3.
- >
- > I tried to download the new SortMail Script from the THOR HomePage and was
- > promptly informed that no such file / directory existed.
- >
- > Guess what.
- >
- > This file had the Beta (▀) character in its name.
- >
- > I then used MFTP and everything was fine.
- >
- > Anybody come across this problem, and if so have you found a fix for it?
- >
-
- Not sure if this will help or not, but it's worth a try...
-
- Are you aware of the escaping mechanism used in URLs? A URL can't
- contain certain characters, even spaces are illegal. But by
- inserting a "%" sign and the hexadecimal value, you can access any
- file.
-
- For example, if you had a file on your web local server called
- "silly name.html", you would have to ask for:
-
- http://localhost/silly%20name.html
-
- %20 is the hex code for a space (chances are you knew this anyway).
- So for your Beta character, you'd need too insert %df (I think!)
-
- I'm only guessing that AMosaic expects the same for files it retrievs
- by FTP, as I haven't tried it.
-
- Lars.
-
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