[Building Sakai] new web content tool error

[Adam Marshall]

I don’t dispute that URL should not contains spaces but the old Web Content tool did accept them. I would imagine a good solution would be to accept URLs with spaces but translate the space to %20 before storing in the DB. The same goes for other disallowed characters.

Our users will go nuts (technical term) if they have to manually translate spaces to %20 in order to save a Web Content link.

adam

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Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.


From: Sam Ottenhoff [mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com]
Sent: 30 July 2014 16:01
To: Adam Marshall
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] new web content tool error

Isn't a space invalid in a URL? http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt






   Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons.  The space

   character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and

   insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or

   typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.

   The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the

   delimiters around URLs in free text; the quote mark (""") is used to

   delimit URLs in some systems.  The character "#" is unsafe and should

   always be encoded because it is used in World Wide Web and in other

   systems to delimit a URL from a fragment/anchor identifier that might

   follow it.  The character "%" is unsafe because it is used for

   encodings of other characters.  Other characters are unsafe because

   gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify

   such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",

   "[", "]", and "`".



   All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk<mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
You can't have a target URL that contains a space in the new Web Content tool.

Is that deliberate? It's breaking loads of our pages. A blocker.

adam

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Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.



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