I'm working on a stack that launches stacks from the web with 'go
stack URL'.
I know there are certain characters that are illegal or unsafe in URL
strings. (See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738) These include
space, quote and a number of others. Most web browsers automatically
escape these characters for you, so, e.g., a space is converted to '%
20' before the browser sends the request to the server.
I'm about to start writing a function that checks a potential stack
URL for illegal and unsafe characters and converts them to escape
sequences, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if such a thing
already exists.
Am I right that there is no equivalent functionality built into Rev?
I know about URLEncode(), of course, but that serves a different
purpose--formatting strings for POSTing, rather than formatting
strings for retrieving files from a server (a GET request?) Am I
understanding this correctly?
A related issue is, are there characters that are disallowed as
filenames for rev stackfiles? I can't find any such list anywhere. I
suppose this would be determined by the host OS?
Thanks.
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
