Re: problem with spaces in urls

Then it is not a legal URL. In order to be a legal URL the spaces should be
represented by '+' or '%20' (both of which are legal encodings for spaces). Putting
a real space in the URL is a good way to get it to not work properly, unless the
browser is smart enough to see it and do the encoding itself (which many are).

D

rosenblg@nyu.edu wrote:

> hi,
>
> i'm running squid-1.1.20; my users are trying to go to a url
> (it's the result of a query to a library catalog, so i have no control
> over what is generated). the url has blanks in it, ie,
>
> http://www.bobcatplus.nyu.edu/QUERY%7Fnext=html/results.html%7Fentityquo=TRUE%7F
> indexsrch=au=%7Ftermsrch=%22ROSENBLUH, WOLF%22%7Fentitysq=ROSENBLUH, WOLF%7Fenti
> ^ ^
> tycurrecno=1%7Fentitytoprecno=1%7Ftempjdws=TRUE%7F%3Asessionid=6604%7F42
>
> is there a fix for this (converting spaces in to %20)?
>
> thanks,
>
> gary
>
> Gary J. Rosenblum
> Unix Systems Manager / News Manager / Networking Group
> New York University
> gary@nyu.edu

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