Laurie: Did you try these two URLs I put in my email?
Why does this fail: http://dev.rentclubs.com/~maryanne/images/clubs/Driver/Ping+G2+Driver.gif and this one work: http://dev.rentclubs.com/~maryanne/images/clubs/Driver/Ping%20G2%20Driver.gi f Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (214) 986-3533, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce operating costs by 17% or more in 6 months or less! http://newsletter.JAMMConsulting.com > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Harper > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:12 PM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: [OT] Force URLEncoder to use %20 instead of + for spaces > > > Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > Hello: > > > > When I encode the name of an image file to place into a > URL, I use this > > code: > > > > URLEncoder.encode(imageName,"UTF-8") > > > > This gives me image names with spaces replaced by + signs > which IE does not > > like. > > > > If I change the spaces to %20, the URL works perfectly in IE. > > > > For example, if my image name is Ping G2 Driver.gif, > URLEncoder gives me > > this URL: > > > <http://dev.rentclubs.com/~maryanne/images/clubs/Driver/Ping+G > 2+Driver.gif> > > > http://dev.rentclubs.com/~maryanne/images/clubs/Driver/Ping+G2 +Driver.gif > > If I try to load this URL in IE, it gives me a 404 error. > > If I use the exact same url with %20, it works just fine: > > <http://dev.rentclubs.com/~maryanne/images/clubs/Driver/Ping%20G2%20Driver.g > if> > http://dev.rentclubs.com/~maryanne/images/clubs/Driver/Ping%20G2%20Driver.gi > f > > I thought + and %20 were both acceptable for spaces in a URL, but apparently > IE does not like the plus signs. > > Is there a way to force URLEncoder to use %20 instead of + signs? Nope. '+' is canonical and should work fine. What encoding are you sending your pages with? That's the only thing I can think of that might make a difference. L. -- Laurie, Open Source advocate, Java geek and novice blogger: http://www.holoweb.net/laurie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
