netscape problems with spaces

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At 10:18 AM 5/8/01 -0700, you wrote: >The filenames for these documents contain spaces. for some reason, NN 4.7 >does not recognize these filenames although IE 5.5 is able to access the >docs just fine.

You must encode the spaces in the URL as %20, .. which is the HTML standard. IE may be supplying them without telling you.

>Also, IE 5.5 sends the first doc that is requested to MS Word; subsequent >docs are sent to the browser for viewing. This switching is confusing for >the user. >Does anyone know what is causing these two problems, and how I can fix them?

Be sure the file extension is .html not .doc.

Lee

============================================ At 10:18 AM 5/8/01 -0700, you wrote: >The filenames for these documents contain spaces. for some reason, NN 4.7 >does not recognize these filenames although IE 5.5 is able to access the >docs just fine.

You must encode the spaces in the URL as %20, .. which is the HTML standard. IE may be supplying them without telling you.

>Also, IE 5.5 sends the first doc that is requested to MS Word; subsequent >docs are sent to the browser for viewing. This switching is confusing for >the user. >Does anyone know what is causing these two problems, and how I can fix them?

Be sure the file extension is .html not .doc.

Lee

============================================ Leland V. Lammert

lvl@omnitec.net Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net ============================================

lvl@omnitec.net Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net ============================================

-- Anonymous, May 16, 2001


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