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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Bug#1440: kfm doesn't refresh display
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-06-28 3:07:32
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, David Faure wrote:
> Yet another url question : is it allowed to have a space in the filename ?
> 
> If yes, there is indeed a bug (probably a comparison between encoded and
> decoded filename ... glad we cleaned this up in HEAD)
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Hugh Fraser Allen <h.allen@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au> -----
> 
> Subject: Bug#1440: kfm doesn't refresh display
> Date: 	Tue, 22 Jun 1999 02:19:15 +1000 (EST)
> From: Hugh Fraser Allen <h.allen@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au>
> To: submit@bugs.kde.org
> 
> Package: kfm
> Version: 1.167.2.11
> 
> If you visit the page
> http://members.xoom.com/hfa/opera/demos/noframes prob.htm
> (yes here's a space in that filename),

I cannot get this to work for me.  I get Error 404 ...

> it displays OK, but when you press the "back" button the URL changes but
> not the display. You can press "back" and "refresh" but the current window
> is stuck on the above document and is therefore useless.
> 
> BTW I created the above document to demonstrate a bug in another browser,
> it just happens to provoke a worse one in kfm.

This is an illegal URL format.  You cannot have a space inside a URL without
encoding it first !!  This is explicitly stated under RFC 1738 section 2.1
under the heading "Unsafe :".

David, I do not know i we should allow users to type URL's with such illegal
characters and then encode it ourselves i.e call encodeURL() before doing
anything with it.  However, it is against the spec, at least RFC 1738 ...

Regards,
Dawit A.

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