See this issue: http://drupal.org/node/191116 Translating spaces to "+" is not RFC-compliant. For maximum compatibility, you should encode both spaces and plus signs using % notation. ----- "Matt Connolly" <matt@cabinetuk.com> wrote:
I have a question about url encoding
Spaces in URLS are normally translated to "%20" and spaces in queries
are normally translated into "+", although the "%20" is correctly decoded.
I'm discovering that private file uploads are not working when there
is a "+" in the file name. This is being translated into a " " (space)
which is quite normal for queries.
With public downloads, (ie accessibly directly via http://mydrupalsite/sites/files/fred+wilma.jpg " the file works. So apache doesn't translate the + in the file's path
name into a space, and the file is downloaded.
With private downloads, the file name is placed into a query, thanks
to mod_rewrite (or, becomes http://mydrupalsite/q?=system/files/fred+wilma.jpg " . You can see where the problem is.
I can easily fix this by altering the "file_create_url" function in "/
includes/file.inc". I know I've been warned to not change drupal's core modules and code, but ..... I think I need to.
However, I wonder if the problem would be better handled in the "url()" function?
I notice that if you create page url's "bananas+pears" and "apples and
oranges" the urls are all encoded with %20. So it seems you can't use
the "+" in a custom URL. Butt least here what you type and what you get are consistent.
Any thoughts? -Matt