From: chrysn Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:06:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: comment about legality of whitespace in urls and %20 X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20140815~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/c9872afd9c6e1adf7de0d05edd46a6a4a6182125?ds=inline;hp=--cc comment about legality of whitespace in urls and %20 --- c9872afd9c6e1adf7de0d05edd46a6a4a6182125 diff --git a/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn b/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn index 847d14167..4749f4dc5 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn @@ -8,3 +8,7 @@ Now that I've moved to Ikiwiki, that doesn't work. So I moved the file here: Is there a better approach to maintaining this link than setting an alias in Apache? > You can add the space character to the `wiki_file_chars` argument in your setup file. -- [[Jon]] + +>> a space character is not allowed in a url; user agents that read one usually represent it in percent encoded form (`%20`). if you use that, things also work for direct links, which i assume caused the problem (for both the links in the original description render correctly): `\[[http://dada.pink/scarsdale/Statement%2020140527.pdf]]` renders [[http://dada.pink/scarsdale/Statement%2020140527.pdf]]. +>> +>> spaces are allowed in internal pages because wiki page names are not urls per se but converted using conversion rules -- this allows people to not think about url rules and just link to pages, but when you're linking outside ikiwiki, some strings just aren't valid urls. --[[chrysn]]