[Orca-users] Strange File Names Revisited

[Blair Zajac]

Alex Kiernan wrote:
> On 22/08/05, Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 21/08/05, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>If you're using IE, it doesn't like those `\'s (it turns them around
>>>>into `/'s), this is the patch I'm using:
>>>>
>>>>Index: lib/Orca/Utils.pm
>>>>===================================================================
>>>>RCS file: /cvsroot/upstream/orca/lib/Orca/Utils.pm,v
>>>>retrieving revision 1.1.1.6
>>>>retrieving revision 1.5
>>>>diff -u -r1.1.1.6 -r1.5
>>>>--- lib/Orca/Utils.pm   11 Jul 2005 05:21:08 -0000      1.1.1.6
>>>>+++ lib/Orca/Utils.pm   22 Jul 2005 07:55:03 -0000      1.5
>>>>@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
>>>>   my ($name, $postfix_length) = @_;
>>>>
>>>>   $name =~ s/:/_/g;
>>>>+  $name =~ s/\\/\//g;
>>>>   $name =~ s:/:_per_:g;
>>>>   $name =~ s:\s+:_:g;
>>>>   $name =~ s:%:_pct_:g;
>>>
>>>This will work, but in the end, a \ becomes a / which is replaced with a
>>>_per_, which changes the meaning of the URL (for those who read the URLs
>>>:) ).  We should change the \ into something else.
>>>
>>>Does IE change the %xx equivalent of the \?
>>>
>>
>>I don't think so, but I can't check just at the moment.
>>
> 
> 
> Just checked... if you change the substitution to %5C, you get
> filenames on disk which are ...%5C..., but IE then evaluates the %5C
> and requests the file as ...\... So it still doesn't work, but it does
> fail differently!
> 

Alex,

Can you try changing the line

+  $name =~ s/\\/\//g;

to

+  $name =~ s/\\/|/g;

and let me know if that works.  I don't want to change the \ to a / to a _per_, 
which looses it's meaning.  The | character is the closest that should tell 
somebody looking at the URL what it means.

Regards,
Blair

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