Url encoding problem

[Cainnech]

Hello everyone,

I'm having a problem here.

I'm using a HTML application to generate reports as htm-files.
Now I want to add a print function to make it all a bit easier.

So I came up with this:

function printfile(filetoprint)
{
var popup = window.open(filetoprint);
popup.focus(); 
popup.print(); 
popup.close();
}
 

You'll probably say: "Nothing wrong with that code." :-) Thank you, it is working fine
.
The problem lies however in my filename. When I wrote the code I added a # to the filename. The problem is now that when I try to open the file the browser tries to execute it, because he sees it as an anchor.

A small example of a filename: "F09-084 # status ().htm"
When I try to open it, the browser is looking for the file called F09-084 and nothing more.

I tried escaping the # and I tried encoding it %23 but no luck.

Does anyone have an idea how to open a file without having the browser look for the anchorpoint?

Regards,

Kenneth

[acoder]

Two things you can try:
1. Avoid # - simple, but may still cause problems.
2. Encode the URI:

encodeURI(filetoprint)

[Cainnech]

Thanks for the reply acoder but it doesn't seem to work.
I looked further on the net and I even found the encodeURIComponent() which appearantly has to be used for characters like # but that didn't work as well.

So in the end I adapted all the filenames to replace the # by a §. And that doesn't provide any problems.

Greets,

Cainnech