[hunchentoot-devel] url-encoding file names

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:50:10 +0200, "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, the former. URL-ENCODE encodes the spaces from the file names,
> to pluses, so even if I use the nice function you provided me with,
> it does not work, I have to replace the pluses with either a space
> or %20.

  CL-USER 1 > (hunchentoot:url-encode "A Space")
  "A%20Space"

Which version of Hunchentoot are you using?

> Sorry, no no, I am serving my mp3-files using Apache only. I was
> just explaining that for some reason a plus character does not work
> in URLs if I want to download a file from my web server using
> Firefox. This problem has nothing to do with Hunchentoot.

Well, in /some/ cases a plus does work.  Actually, some days ago Peter
Seibel asked me whether I could switch back Hunchentoot's behaviour to
emitting "+" instead of "%20".  But "%20" is the right thing to do.

> Maybe we should drop this, I am not trying to critizise Hunchentoot,
> I am just discussing whether I need to do my (replace-all
> (replace-all (url-encode file-name ...) ...) ...) or if there was
> any way to do this directly using Hunchentoot. The foo defun you
> gave me is close, but returns those pluses that does not seem to
> work in Firefox/Apache.

It /should/ work with the FOO function I sent /and/ the latest version
of Hunchentoot.  You might also want to look at how CL-WEBDAV works.

> Maybe you thought I also used Hunchentoot to deliver the mp3-files
> to the client, when I just lets Apache to do it.

If you use Hunchentoot to deliver the files, it should be able to cope
with both "+" and "%20".

Cheers,
Edi.