On 17 jan. 2012, at 11:11, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Kees Jan Koster wrote: >> Dear all, >>> Now about whether this is a bug in Tomcat or its documentation : I am >>> fairly sure that not long ago, I saw a strong warning somewhere in the >>> on-line Tomcat documentation, about not using spaces in pathnames >>> somewhere, as it was not supported by some component. >> Perhaps the Tomcat start script can issue a warning in case spaces are found >> in the path? > You know, I think that this is a lost battle. The habit is by now so > entrenched that there is probably nothing anyone can do by now to extirpate > this, other than designing a new OS where this is forbidden. And you'd still > have to deal with funny imported foreign file names and paths. > But I keep on reacting to issues to do with withespace in pathnames, just > because I believe that there is not one programmer alive in the whole world, > who has not had some problem with this at some point. > So if you can save yourself the trouble, by installing Tomcat in some > pathname which makes sense and is not a pain to type and forget to quote > somewhere, you'll always do yourself a favor in the end. > > P.S. In our current globalised world, similar issues exist with filenames > containing characters that can perhaps be displayed everywhere, but not > /typed/ on >
Agreed on the lost battle part. My suggestion is merely to help people who never experienced path issues like this before. It gives them a place to start looking when tomcat does not work for them. That is why I suggest to issue a warning and not rewrite the OS. Kees Jan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
