Bug? Accented character in directory path

[iantresman]

I'm using Zoom 5.0.1004 with CGI/Win32. One of my directories includes an accented character, which is indexed fine.

But on clicking on the search results link, the accented character is corrupted, and the document is not found.

Indexed directory path
C:\web\..\papers\Cafén

On clicking on the link, I get:
The requested URL /../papers/Cafén/doc.pdf was not found on this server


Regards,
Ian Tresman

[David]

You should not use 'é' as part of a URL. Accented characters are not valid characters in a URL.

The formal definition is,

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The URL standard, RFC 1738, <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>.

; URL schemeparts for ip based protocols:
ip-schemepart = "//" login [ "/" urlpath ]
login = [ user [ ":" password ] "@" ] hostport
hostport = host [ ":" port ]
host = hostname | hostnumber
hostname = *[ domainlabel "." ] toplabel
domainlabel = alphadigit | alphadigit *[ alphadigit | "-" ] alphadigit
toplabel = alpha | alpha *[ alphadigit | "-" ] alphadigit
alphadigit = alpha | digit
hostnumber = digits "." digits "." digits "." digits
port = digits
user = *[ uchar | ";" | "?" | "&" | "=" ]
password = *[ uchar | ";" | "?" | "&" | "=" ]
urlpath = *xchar ; depends on protocol see section 3.1

; HTTP
httpurl = "http://" hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]]
hpath = hsegment *[ "/" hsegment ]
hsegment = *[ uchar | ";" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" ]
search = *[ uchar | ";" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" ]

; Miscellaneous definitions
lowalpha = "a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f" | "g" | "h" |
"i" | "j" | "k" | "l" | "m" | "n" | "o" | "p" |
"q" | "r" | "s" | "t" | "u" | "v" | "w" | "x" |
"y" | "z"
hialpha = "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" | "G" | "H" | "I" |
"J" | "K" | "L" | "M" | "N" | "O" | "P" | "Q" | "R" |
"S" | "T" | "U" | "V" | "W" | "X" | "Y" | "Z"
alpha = lowalpha | hialpha
digit = "0" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" |
"8" | "9"
safe = "$" | "-" | "_" | "." | "+"
extra = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","
national = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "~" | "[" | "]" | "`"
punctuation = "<" | ">" | "#" | "%" | <">

reserved = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "="
hex = digit | "A" | "B" | "C" | "D" | "E" | "F" |
"a" | "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "f"
escape = "%" hex hex
unreserved = alpha | digit | safe | extra
uchar = unreserved | escape
xchar = unreserved | reserved | escape
digits = 1*digit
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But having said that, we could probably look at encoding the illegal characters in the URL (as % hex hex). In fact I think we already do this for spider mode. I assume you are using offline mode?

[iantresman]

But having said that, we could probably look at encoding the illegal characters in the URL (as % hex hex). In fact I think we already do this for spider mode. I assume you are using offline mode?

Correct, for speed, I'm indexing in Offline mode, and then upload and running from a Web site.

Regards,
Ian Tresman

[iantresman]

I think I'll just change the directory name and remove the accent.

Regards,
Ian

[Ray]

This will be addressed in the upcoming build (5.0.1005) which will encode any unsafe characters in the filename/path when indexing in Offline Mode. So in the above example, it will now link to "../papers/Caf%E9n/doc.pdf".