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

On 2024-09-07 19:59, 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?

I copied a jpg file and renamed it "U&blah.jpg"
On the command line, this works:
w3m U\&blah.jpg
This is direct loading, bypassing apache.
If I put the file in apache path, it also works.
cer@Telcontar:/srv/www/home/cer/ampersand> l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 cer users 4096 Sep  7 21:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 cer root  4096 Sep  7 21:07 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 3402 Sep  7 21:00 U&blah.jpg
cer@Telcontar:/srv/www/home/cer/ampersand>
The command "w3m http://localhost/~cer/ampersand" displays the page:
Index of /~cer/ampersand
Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
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[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory                             -
[IMG] U&blah.jpg              2024-09-07 21:00  3.3K
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Apache/2.4.51 (Linux/SUSE) Server at localhost Port 80
And hitting enter on the file displays the photo it contains (it calls imagemagick, as w3m is a text mode web browser).
Then I tried with firefox, and it also works.
http://localhost/~cer/ampersand/U&blah.jpg
So, no problem!  :-)
Oh, I also added a photo with png extension, no problem.
http://localhost/~cer/ampersand/x&inesnap-20020308-195150-1.png
Did I misunderstand something?
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Cheers, Carlos.