# giving me problems

[mike]

I have a user who stored a file with a # in the filename, something
like:

testing#.txt

So, when the web page displays it the html looks like:

<a href="http://mydomain.com/files/testing#.txt">testing#.txt</a>

When I click on the link I get an error message like:

HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Services

How can I allow the user to continue to put #'s in their filename and
have them assessible on the page?

Mike

[Lauri Raittila]

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, mike wrote:

How can I allow the user to continue to put #'s in their filename and
have them assessible on the page?

Not using # in URL. You might try url encoding.

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[Benjamin Niemann]

mike wrote:

I have a user who stored a file with a # in the filename, something
like:

testing#.txt

So, when the web page displays it the html looks like:

<a href="http://mydomain.com/files/testing#.txt">testing#.txt</a>

When I click on the link I get an error message like:

HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Services

How can I allow the user to continue to put #'s in their filename and
have them assessible on the page?

The '#' character (amongst others) must be encoded when used in the URL's
path part. A literal '#' marks the start of the fragment part. What the
browser does, when you click the link above, is requesting the file
http://mydomain.com/files/testing and looks for an element with the ID
'.txt' in it - obviously not what you are looking for.
Replace '#' by '%23' to get it working:
<a href="http://mydomain.com/files/testing%23.txt">testing#.txt</a>

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[Mark]

mike wrote:

I have a user who stored a file with a # in the filename, something
like:

testing#.txt

So, when the web page displays it the html looks like:

<a href="http://mydomain.com/files/testing#.txt">testing#.txt</a>

When I click on the link I get an error message like:

HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Services

How can I allow the user to continue to put #'s in their filename and
have them assessible on the page?

When you create the URL, be sure to change any "#" to "%23", i.e.

<a href="http://mydomain.com/files/testing%23.txt">testing#.txt</a>

Mark

[mike]

That fixed it !!!! Thank you very much.