[Ham-Computers] Web site question

[Jay]

Nope.  There are a number of web servers and a number of web browsers that
can't handle certain characters in URLs or filenames.  That's because the
characters themselves have special meaning, as defined by the HTML standard.
They include / & % . < > and the space or tab characters.  The way any of
these are handled is by using an escape sequence, which in HTML is % and
then the ASCII numeric code for the character.  So %20 is a space.

What's happening is (1) the space in the file name or directory is illegal
in HTML (2) the web server is "hiding" it from the HTML by converting it to
%20 (3) IE is faithfully representing what's really there and (4) Whatever
was used to "create" the webpage shouldn't have let you use a space, or
should have warned you it would display as %20 in the address to your
"users".

BTW, this can also break in some browsers.  Some will want you to type the
space in the address bar and will convert it to %20 in the page request.
Some will want you to type exactly what you see with the %20.  And some will
BREAK if you type the %20.

The ONLY way to be 100% sure that you don't confuse a user who doesn't
understand what's happening is to never use any of the special characters
(not the shift+number keys -the ones that HTML says are special) in any of
you file names.

Jay 

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dan Violette
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 18:41
To: kd4e at verizon.net; 'Computers (or other) used for amateur radio,
communications, or experimenting'
Subject: RE: [Ham-Computers] Web site question

I think it is an IE issue.  Dreamweaver, etc. would do the same.  Also "&"
etc. come up as ASCII too.  The underscore does not though.  Dan 

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of kd4e
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 5:31 PM
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Web site question

That's good to know, Dan.

I am old school and tend to use all lower case in image and html file names
and never use spaces.  ;-)

Given their claim to user-friendliness and the cost of what is free
elsewhere shouldn't FrontPage handle this better?

Sigh ... doc

> The "%20" is ASCII 20 or the space character.  It does not show as a 
> space in IE only as ASCII character.  I like to use underscore "_" or 
> no space in page names for this reason.
> Dan KI6X

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