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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Bug#1440: kfm doesn't refresh display
From:       David Faure <david.faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-06-28 6:29:43
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Thanks Dawit.

Closed the bug.

On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 11:07:32PM -0400, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> 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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