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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
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Subject: Re: How to link to a file with ampersand in its name
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 19:05:54 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:44:30 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> I have a file that has to be called U&blah.png
>> 
>> I cannot find any way to direct the browser to load it
>> 
>> U&blah.png doesnt work
>> U%26blah.png doesnt work
>> 
>> Using php rawurlencode doesnt work. It effectively does nothing
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> http://localhost/U%26blah.txt
> 
> works here (both with IIS on win11 and apache on Fedora)

With test files white_grapes.png and white&grapes.png
(where white_grapes.png is a symlink to white&grapes.png)
both
  <img src="white_grapes.png" />
and
  <img src="white&grapes.png" />
produced proper images in Firefox, from an apache server


-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"