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

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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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