Space's in URL's..

[Chris Csanady <cc...@scl.ameslab.gov>]

Does anyone have any patches that would allow for spaces
in URL's?  After searching the bug reports, it looks like
disallowing spaces is a policy decision--although that
doesn't help much.

I would like to use netscape's roaming access capabilities,
although it stores mail filters with the URL "IMAP hostname."
With apache, this gets truncated to IMAP and then having
multiple servers causes the same file to be used/clobbered.

Any ideas?  Even a pointer to where the URL parsing is done
would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris Csanady

Re: Space's in URL's..

[Tani Hosokawa <un...@riverstyx.net>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Chris Csanady wrote:

> Does anyone have any patches that would allow for spaces
> in URL's?  After searching the bug reports, it looks like
> disallowing spaces is a policy decision--although that
> doesn't help much.
> 
> I would like to use netscape's roaming access capabilities,
> although it stores mail filters with the URL "IMAP hostname."
> With apache, this gets truncated to IMAP and then having
> multiple servers causes the same file to be used/clobbered.
> 
> Any ideas?  Even a pointer to where the URL parsing is done
> would be appreciated.

That's probably more like an RFC, not just an Apache policy decision.  If
you want a space in your URL you have to encode it with %20, like

  http://www.riverstyx.net/test%20.html
= http://www.riverstyx.net/test .html

I think applying a little sed or awk would probably be more efficient than
hacking Apache.

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet