On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:45 +0000, William John Murray wrote: > Hello there, > My employers have just produced a WWW link with a name > like: > "private.xx.yy/bad name/really bad name's.doc" > If I click in firefox under fedora 8 I get a 404 for > "private.xx.yy/bad$%20name/really%20bad%20name" > If I type into the title bar > "private.xx.yy/bad$%20name/really%20bad%20name\'s.doc" > openoffice opens a document containing: "500 internal server error" > If I use a certain other operating system, firefox translates the > apostrophe into %27 and does get the file. > > Is this a Fedora bug? Or are apostrophes not really legal? > > Thanks, > Bill Oh..and I see if I copy-and-paste the link instead of clicking on it then it works in Fedora too. -- ________________________________________________________________ Dr William Murray w.j.murray@xxxxxxxx (44)-1235-446256 RAL, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
