Re: See pg in Netscape pt@

Jim,
Interesting that you mention the space problem in file names and the
problems created by Microsoft with them.  Shortly before I decided to take
the hwg HTML class, I made the naive mistake of investing in FrontPage 2000.
Then I started talking to pros who gave me the lowdown on its shortcomings.
I was still skeptical and thought that it must have some value.  As I was
perusing the program one day, I found something I really needed and was very
thankful.  This was a program to set up a Bulletin Board for my first site
which was for the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation.

To make a long story short, I set up the pages I needed, which was to be a
Musicians Seeking Musicians Page.  When I went to test the pages by
uploading to my server, I was stopped in the process because the file names
that were automatically assigned by the program contained spaces.  I
proceeded to manually go into the program and change all the file names so
that the page links would work.  I then tried it again and mysteriously
FrontPage had overridden my changes and the file names still had spaces in
them.  This infuriated me so that I have never used the program and as a
neophyte I am still seeking:
a)  a good way to do the Bulletin Board
b)  a good program for general web work.
Kate Pollara
http://jsjbf.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Tom Polk <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: See pg in Netscape pt@


> Having spaces in a file name violates the World Web Consortium URLs and
> URL encoding specifications based on specifications that were initially
> published back in 1990 by the IETF.
>
> There a lot of characters that can cause this problem, as well as
> causing incompatibility between all types of servers and even routers.
>
> When you load up the page, look at the properties of that image with
> MSIE. You will notice that it has a % percent sign followed by some hex
> values representing a space (%20) in that space.
>
> Insofar as I know this was not a problem until Microsoft Windows
> innovated and started using spaces in their file names, then of course
> MSIE had to support that innovation for file names delivered over the
> web even though the specifications disallowing this were published (see
> above) and known for many years before a Microsoft web server  a gleam
> in Bill Gates eyes.
>
> Just my opinion though.
>
>
>
> > Thanks to all of you I think I've found the problem!
> > NN doesn't take kindly to spaces in file names and
> > I just plugged in the files with the client's names
> > (including spaces)  IE doesn't mind I guess and shows
> > the pics but NN has a problem with it.......
> >
> > Thanks for all the help and kind words about the doggies
> > etc...  Now off to work fixing file names  :)
> >
>
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>   - G'Kar  "Survivors"

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