Re: PDF Link Error--Longish

[jeremy@xxxxxxxxx (Jeremy H. Griffith)]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:24:14 -0500, "Anderson, Ben" <BAnderson@gfbank.com>
wrote:

>And here's the path to the linked PDF:
>/Documentation/PDFs/BAS%2520Bulletins/bas99-07tx.pdf
>
>Notice the "25" in the path...if I delete the "25" and press enter the
>linked PDF opens just fine.
>
>Any help would be appreciated!!

"%20" is the URL encoding for a space.  Now if you encode *again*,
you get "%2520" because "%25" is the URL encoding for a percent "%"!

What is the answer?  There's only one:  GET RID OF ALL SPACES
in the file and path names.  In fact, get rid of anything that
is not a letter or number, even get rid of underscore "_".  Any
character that must be "URL quoted" will cause you great pain.

A simple rule, but ever so important...

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
   (jeremy@omsys.com)     http://www.omsys.com/
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