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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon wjdp

Spaces in file names

Open tomtom5152 opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Should spaces in file names cause an error/warning? There really is no place for them in web dev.

tomtom5152 avatar Feb 22 '17 17:02 tomtom5152

Agreed, though I'd like to see a standard on that.

wjdp avatar Feb 22 '17 18:02 wjdp

Looking through SO and some RFCs, many things can be in a filename as long as they get percent encoded (i.e. %20).

I'm unsure if htmltest handles these cases well for internal links (i.e. do we transcribe unsafe characters to percent encodes). While I dislike the idea of a space in a filename we still should support them as they are sorta valid (with encoding).

Where this matters is international characters. I don't know but as we have special chars in domains now I'm sure people will want them in the path.

Also if someone is trying to use htmltest with a large project I don't want the face they have some oddly named files to be an issue.

wjdp avatar Feb 22 '17 18:02 wjdp