[hunchentoot-devel] url-encoding file names

[Edi Weitz]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:16:10 +0200, "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am encoding file names using the url-encode function in
> Hunchentoot.  However, it encodes chars such as space and / as well,
> which makes at least my browser (Firefox) or web server not
> understand that they are indeed links to files I have shared.

This question actually has nothing to do with Hunchentoot but with
understanding what URL-encoding is.  See for example:

  http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

Forward slashes, for example, have special meaning in URLs and thus
/must/ be encoded.  And the spaces won't confuse Firefox.

What you probably want is (something similar) to this (untested):

  (defun foo (pathspec)
    (format nil "~{~A/~}~A"
            (mapcar #'url-encode
                    (rest (pathname-directory pathspec)))
            (url-encode (file-namestring pathspec))))

HTH,
Edi.