Re: How to link to a file with ampersand in its name

On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:05:54 +0000, Lew Pitcher wrote:

On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:44:30 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
 

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

I have a file that has to be called U&blah.png
 
I cannot find any way to direct the browser to load it
 
U&ampblah.png doesnt work
U%26blah.png doesnt work
 
Using php rawurlencode doesnt work. It effectively does nothing
 
Any ideas?

http://localhost/U%26blah.txt
 
works here (both with IIS on win11 and apache on Fedora)

 
With test files white_grapes.png and white&grapes.png
(where white_grapes.png is a symlink to white&grapes.png)
both
  <img src="white_grapes.png" />
and
  <img src="white&grapes.png" />
produced proper images in Firefox, from an apache server

Also
  http://host/white&grapes.png
resolves to the proper image when entered in the URL bar
of Firefox (again, image served by an apache server on Linux)


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Lew Pitcher
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