[Orca-users] Strange File Names Revisited

[Blair Zajac]

Alex Kiernan wrote:
> On 02/09/05, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> 
>>Alex Kiernan wrote:
>>
>>>On 22/08/05, Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 21/08/05, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>If you're using IE, it doesn't like those `\'s (it turns them around
>>>>>>into `/'s), this is the patch I'm using:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Index: lib/Orca/Utils.pm
>>>>>>===================================================================
>>>>>>RCS file: /cvsroot/upstream/orca/lib/Orca/Utils.pm,v
>>>>>>retrieving revision 1.1.1.6
>>>>>>retrieving revision 1.5
>>>>>>diff -u -r1.1.1.6 -r1.5
>>>>>>--- lib/Orca/Utils.pm   11 Jul 2005 05:21:08 -0000      1.1.1.6
>>>>>>+++ lib/Orca/Utils.pm   22 Jul 2005 07:55:03 -0000      1.5
>>>>>>@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
>>>>>>  my ($name, $postfix_length) = @_;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  $name =~ s/:/_/g;
>>>>>>+  $name =~ s/\\/\//g;
>>>>>>  $name =~ s:/:_per_:g;
>>>>>>  $name =~ s:\s+:_:g;
>>>>>>  $name =~ s:%:_pct_:g;
>>>>>
>>>>>This will work, but in the end, a \ becomes a / which is replaced with a
>>>>>_per_, which changes the meaning of the URL (for those who read the URLs
>>>>>:) ).  We should change the \ into something else.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does IE change the %xx equivalent of the \?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't think so, but I can't check just at the moment.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Just checked... if you change the substitution to %5C, you get
>>>filenames on disk which are ...%5C..., but IE then evaluates the %5C
>>>and requests the file as ...\... So it still doesn't work, but it does
>>>fail differently!
>>>
>>
>>Alex,
>>
>>Can you try changing the line
>>
>>+  $name =~ s/\\/\//g;
>>
>>to
>>
>>+  $name =~ s/\\/|/g;
>>
>>and let me know if that works.
> 
> 
> Looks like it works fine.

Great.

I've made the change to Orca in revision 481.

Regards,
Blair