Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Yes, quite correct. The 'fix' skips-over the leading space in sitations such-as those at the redirect page.... but does not remove spaces from within URLs Joe found referecne to this situation in the HTML specs. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ArachneDevelopment/message/3162?unwrap=1&var=0&l=1 According to that spec.... It looks like we need to also remove trailing spaces in addition to leading spaces. _____________________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:17:00 -0400, Jason Dodd wrote: > Am I wrong that the fix put in was that the site fixed the URL it redirected > you to, not that that ff changed the URL because of the illegal leading > space? > Not that that would change the way Arachne should work. > 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. -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --