%20 in file names

[flamer die.spam@hotmail.com]

When I download files with spaces in the file names IE replaces the

spaces with %20



I haven't noticed this with other versions of IE and I would like it

to leave the file name as it is. is there an option, or patch or

upgrade available for this?

 

[Tom Willett]

IE has always done this. Since spaces in file names are considered illegal

HTML, it's up to the web authors to correct it by using hyphens, underbars,

etc.



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: When I download files with spaces in the file names IE replaces the

: spaces with %20

:

: I haven't noticed this with other versions of IE and I would like it

: to leave the file name as it is. is there an option, or patch or

: upgrade available for this?

:

 

[flamer die.spam@hotmail.com]

On Feb 24, 11:27 am, "Tom Willett"

wrote:

> IE has always done this. Since spaces in file names are considered illegal

> HTML, it's up to the web authors to correct it by using hyphens, underbars,

> etc.

>



Yes but spaces in file names are legal on the Windows operating

system. I don't want to have a legal URL, I am downloading Excel

spreadsheets and saving them to a directory, yes IE is treating the

file name like a URL.

 

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die.spam@hotmail.com wrote:

> When I download files with spaces in the file names IE replaces the

> spaces with %20

>

> I haven't noticed this with other versions of IE and I would like it

> to leave the file name as it is. is there an option, or patch or

> upgrade available for this?

 

[Gordon]

wrote in message

news:3bf539a3-b087-41af-a457-5443eee5beec@c37g2000prb.googlegroups.com...

> On Feb 24, 11:27 am, "Tom Willett"

> wrote:

>> IE has always done this. Since spaces in file names are considered

>> illegal

>> HTML, it's up to the web authors to correct it by using hyphens,

>> underbars,

>> etc.

>>

>

> Yes but spaces in file names are legal on the Windows operating

> system. I don't want to have a legal URL, I am downloading Excel

> spreadsheets and saving them to a directory, yes IE is treating the

> file name like a URL.



Well it would do, wouldn't it? What do you expect?

 

[flamer die.spam@hotmail.com]

> Well it would do, wouldn't it? What do you expect?



For it to treat it for what it really is, a file, not a hyperlink.

 

[rob^_^]

Hi,



That is done by the programmers of the web site. They have the option of

specifying a filename for the file to be saved as from their server side

code regardless of the correctness of the hyperlink they use to launch the

download. Things get really tricky when you are using filenames that are in

unicode languages.



Regards.



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> > Well it would do, wouldn't it? What do you expect?

>

> For it to treat it for what it really is, a file, not a hyperlink.

>

 

[flamer die.spam@hotmail.com]

On Feb 24, 12:49 pm, "rob^_^" wrote:

> Hi,

>

> That is done by the programmers of the web site. They have the option of

> specifying a filename for the file to be saved as from their server side

> code regardless of the correctness of the hyperlink they use to launch the

> download. Things get really tricky when you are using filenames that are in

> unicode languages.

>

> Regards.

>



in some cases that is true, but this is a file someone else has

uploaded to the site, with spaces in the name, on the directory the

file has spaces in its name, if I download it with firefox it has

spaces in its name too. Just IE decides to remove them.

 

[Tom Willett]

Once you download, rename it using - or _ instead of spaces.



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On Feb 24, 12:49 pm, "rob^_^" wrote:

> Hi,

>

> That is done by the programmers of the web site. They have the option of

> specifying a filename for the file to be saved as from their server side

> code regardless of the correctness of the hyperlink they use to launch the

> download. Things get really tricky when you are using filenames that are

> in

> unicode languages.

>

> Regards.

>



in some cases that is true, but this is a file someone else has

uploaded to the site, with spaces in the name, on the directory the

file has spaces in its name, if I download it with firefox it has

spaces in its name too. Just IE decides to remove them.

 

[Dan]

wrote in message

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> When I download files with spaces in the file names IE replaces the

> spaces with %20

>

> I haven't noticed this with other versions of IE and I would like it

> to leave the file name as it is. is there an option, or patch or

> upgrade available for this?

>



Are you sure the spaces are not there when viewing with Windows Explorer? IE

will replace spaces with %20 because it uses URIs, for instance starting

with file:///, where a space is an illegal character and it will show these

as %20; which is the URI encoded version of the hex value 20, which is the

decimal value 32, and ASCII character 32 is space.



For instance, I've just put a file on a UNC here name \\server\share\test

file.txt . IE shows this in the address bar at

file:///server/share/test%20file.txt, which for a properly formatted URI is

correct. The filename itself does not have %20 in it though.



If you are downloading files and they are having the space replaced with

%20, then I would suggest you try again with all add-ons disabled - if it

works correctly then you have an add-on loaded that is changing the file

name.



--

Dan