[Pmwiki-users] New version no upload directives available for testing here

[Christian Ridderström]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:11:55PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:

> > 	http://www.lyx.org/~chr/demo/uploads/Upload/upload.php.txt
> 
> Well, the problem I've had in the past hasn't been with the PHP patterns, 
> but in getting non-ASCII characters in URIs to work with various browsers
> (specifically, Internet Explorer).  So, I can create a URI with ISO-8859-1
> characters okay, but then some browsers seem to munge the character 
> encodings somehow when they're in URIs so they don't come back the same
> way they were sent.

Well, I (shudder) tested this using IE and it didn't work. Some 
experimenting indicated that it's because IE doesn't recognize %2F as '/'.
Then I encapsulated the call to urlencode() within a new function that I 
called uriEncodeWoSlash() that just calls urlencode() and then replaces 
all '%2F' with '/'. 

Now the links on this page
 http://www.lyx.org/~chr/demo/pmwiki.php?pagename=Upload.NonEnglishCharacters
worked in IE at least.

/Christian

> 
> For example, on the www.lyx.org site I went to
>    http://www.lyx.org/~chr/demo/pmwiki.php?pagename=Upload.NonEnglishCharacters
> and the links for Attach:?.txt and Attach:?/aFile.txt don't work with 
> Internet Explorer.  I get URIs that read
>       http://www.lyx.org/~chr/demo/uploads/Upload%2F%E5.txt
> and   http://www.lyx.org/~chr/demo/uploads/Upload%2F%E5%2FaFile.txt
> 
> both of which return 404 Not Found errors from apache.  
> 
> (Just to pre-empt an answer:  yes, I know it looks like one could 
> simply replace the %2F and %E5 with their ASCII equivalents, but 
>    1.  This doesn't answer *why* it's occurring
>    2.  One would think that Apache would do the conversion, but it doesn't,
>        which indicates that there's something else going on here
>    3.  In some previous tests I did with this, the non-ASCII characters
>        that IE sent weren't as obvious as the %2F%E5%2F listed above...
> )

IE sucks...

/Christian

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