Plugger and spaces (%20) in URL attached documents

[der.hans]

Am 26. Nov, 2002 schw=E4tzte Matt Alexander so:

> I'm using Mozilla 1.1, Plugger, and the Outlook Web Access for my Linux
> users to connect to an Exchange server.  I've modified /etc/pluggerrc to
> use OpenOffice for opening MS Excel documents.  File attachments show up
> as links.  If the attachment has spaces in the name, then I get errors
> when clicking the link.
>
> The OpenOffice splash screen pops up and then a dialog box says:
>
> Error loading document file:///tmp/plugtmp/PHONE%20DIRECTORY-%20March.xls=
:
> /tmp/plugtmp/PHONE DIRECTORY- March.xls does not exist.
>
> /tmp/plugtmp has this file:
>
> PHONE%20DIRECTORY-%20March.xls
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle spaces in URL
> attachments with Plugger and/or OpenOffice?

spaces in URLs are strictly verboten. The real fix is to not allow spaces i=
n
URL as the spec says.

Other than that, you need to either quote the filename when opening it or
get whatever routine is throwing it to disk to convert the spaces to
something else.

Not also, it's not handling the URL that isn't work for you, it's the space
in a filename that is.

ciao,

der.hans
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