FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: Why can't Arachne find this web site?

[Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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It works OK in FireFox 1.5.0.11 too.

Rob

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> Well, what do know..... They already _have_ implemented it. ;-)
>
> Just now visited http://www.fnfsr.org/ using FireFox v2.0.0.2 and was
> redirected to the correct URL of http://domain.com/site/Welcome.html
> without the leading space in front of 'site/'
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:48:05 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> > Yes... it actually _did_ need to be fixed.
> > A 'leading space' is an illegal nameing convention for both filenames
> > and directory names.
> > Therefore, any URL with leading space(s) is obviously a typo due to
> > the fact that no such filename nor directory name can possibly exist.
> > So... we need to 'skip over' any leading spaces which might have been
> > erroniously typed into a URL.
> > Spaces within filenames and direcytory names _are_ legal and will not be
> > skipped over by my code.
> > It is only the 'leading spaces' that will be skipped over.
> > As to FireFox....
> > Perhaps the FireFox developers should also implement this little fix.
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:56:49 -0400, Jason & Ornumar Dodd wrote:
> > > There wasn't anything to fix was there?
> > > The page doesn't exist.
> > > Get the same error in firefox.
> > > Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> > > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> > > Fixed it. :)
> > > As you can see from this code snippet, it was easy as adding yet
> > > another small fix similar to the one I made last September.....
> > > --- in urlstat.c of the SRC code for Arachne's main program core.exe ---
> > > // ========================================================================
> > > //!!glennmcc: Sep 28, 2006 -- //skip '\"'
> > > if(!strncmp(strptr,"\\\"",2))
> > > strptr+=2;
> > > //!!glennmcc: end
> > > //!!glennmcc: Apr 19, 2007 -- //skip leading space(s)
> > > //needed to fix problems such as this....
> > > //<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= site/Welcome.html" />
> > > //__________________________________________^<-- erroneous space
> > > //the resulting URL is ... http://domain.com/%20/site/Welcome.html
> > > //instead of the coorect URL of... http://domain.com/site/Welcome.html
> > > while(!strncmp(strptr," ",1))
> > >     (strptr++);
> > > //!!glennmcc: end
> > > ___________________________________________________________________________
> > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:08:33 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> > > The redirect to http://www.fnfsr.org/site/Welcome.html does not work
> > > correctly due to a malformed URL at http://www.fnfsr.org/
> > > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= site/Welcome.html" />
> > > __________________________________________^<-- erroneous space
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