[ ] in filenames

Post by **ElizabethD** » Mon May 24, 2004 6:36 am

No big deal and not a JP1 issue. Perhaps everybody knows, but me. Looks like [square brackets] in filename are poison for making links – where, whatever parses this, isn’t looking for complete [/url] but first bracket after url=fileLink.
This fails
.zip]zip file
This worked for me
zip file

Keep up the great work. And thanks for all the help you're providing.

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:15 am

Yes, there are many characters that are not allowed in URLs.
For example, one of those is the space. It must be replaced with %20
The left square bracket should be %5B and the right square bracket should be %5D

Post by **The Robman** » Mon May 24, 2004 11:23 am

Or you could just avoid using square brackets in your file names!

Post by **ElizabethD** » Tue May 25, 2004 9:56 am

No [ ] is filename ? That's like telling someone to stop drinking, smoking, driving thru red lights