From c9872afd9c6e1adf7de0d05edd46a6a4a6182125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chrysn Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 11:06:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] comment about legality of whitespace in urls and %20 --- doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn b/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn index 847d14167..4749f4dc5 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Spaces_in_URLs.mdwn @@ -8,3 +8,7 @@ Now that I've moved to Ikiwiki, that doesn't work. So I moved the file here: Is there a better approach to maintaining this link than setting an alias in Apache? > You can add the space character to the `wiki_file_chars` argument in your setup file. -- [[Jon]] + +>> a space character is not allowed in a url; user agents that read one usually represent it in percent encoded form (`%20`). if you use that, things also work for direct links, which i assume caused the problem (for both the links in the original description render correctly): `\[[http://dada.pink/scarsdale/Statement%2020140527.pdf]]` renders [[http://dada.pink/scarsdale/Statement%2020140527.pdf]]. +>> +>> spaces are allowed in internal pages because wiki page names are not urls per se but converted using conversion rules -- this allows people to not think about url rules and just link to pages, but when you're linking outside ikiwiki, some strings just aren't valid urls. --[[chrysn]]