SID-02011: Forced Links breaking if path has spaces

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.1	Perl version:	5.12.3
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Windows 2003	Last update:	11 years ago

I'd like to link to a file on the wiki server using a relative path /files/my file.docx

The forced link is:[[file:///files/my file.docx][My File]]

The first save is ok. However when I reopen with the wysiwyg editor the link has changed to: [[file:///files/my][file.docx]]

Adding a %20 fixes: [[file:///files/my%20file.docx][My File]]

but is tedious for long path names.

We just migrated from foswiki where spaces didn't cause problems. Are links different in twiki?

-- Andy Frecuente - 2015-01-16

Discussion and Answer

The [[link title]] is a an undocumented syntax in TWiki since pretty much the beginning - it was one of the developer's favorite syntax. The documented syntax is [[link][title]].

A space in a URL is not supported in HTML anyway - spaces need to be URL encoded. %20 is one way, a + is another way. In your case I recommend to write [[file:///files/my+file.docx][My File]].

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-01-17

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