Description

Spaces in file links where %20 is used don't work in Internet Explorer. (They work fine in Firefox)
It seems IE doesn't replaces the %20 with a space.

Steps to reproduce

1. make a file link to a existing file which has spaces in it's path and insert the needed %20 space placeholders
   

2. try it out with Firefox and it will work (not this test link so :P). In IE the %20 placeholders will not be replaced which has as result a broken link

Example

• e.g. file:\\c:\tmpdirectory\file name test
  this has to be modified to link to a existing file in your network

Details

Since our Wiki is used in a semi huge company where many different browsers are used this is quite a annoying bug.## example: moin 1.3.0, Mac OS X 10.3.3, Python 2.3.0, Apache 2.0.48 with mod_python 3.1.2b, using SSL and Authentication

Workaround

Only workaround for our IE users is to replace the %20 manually in such file links atm ... this is not the best workaround :P There might be some IE settings to fix this but we didn't figured them out yet. For files use three

[file:///\\server\Projects%20Library\Project\Document.doc]

Discussion

At other places where file attachements are discussed someone mentioned the use of quotes which seems the best solution to me.

Works here. What is your version of Internet Explorer?
German IE Ver.6 with SP2 .. all in my company who are using IE instead of Firefox should have this version running.

• As I said - this is not a MoinMoin bug and I cannot reproduce it either. It is known that some browsers do not support file-links for security reasons.
  
  Well file links without spaces in their names/path work without problem.

  • Here, I can use names with and without spaces on the same IE.
    • Ok I found out this problem just accurs on mapped drives. Since my company is using fixed mapped drive names to network pc's, WIKI links were added with a mapped drive name. Fixing it just needed to change this mapped drive name into the real server path. It's still strange why Firefox is working fine with it and IE is not, but knowing how to avoid it is ok alrdy :).

Plan

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• Status: Not a moinmoin bug.

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