#CFFILE.serverFile# returns %20 for files with a space

[kbuska525]

I'm trying to upload a file and then display a thumbnail of the item. This
works fine except when upload files with a space in the name. I get a red x
letting me know if couldn't find foo%x0bar.jpg. The title of the image is foo
bar.jpg
What do I need to remove spaces from Files?

Thank you,
Ken

[kbuska525]

I'm trying to upload a file and then display a thumbnail of the item. This
works fine except when upload files with a space in the name. I get a red x
letting me know if couldn't find foo%x0bar.jpg. The title of the image is foo
bar.jpg
What do I need to remove spaces from Files?

Thank you,
Ken

[Fernis]

I don't have CF at hand right now, so I reserve the right to be wrong, but here
goes:

Are you sure CFFILE.serverfile really contains the "%20"? Maybe you're just
seeing it in the browser?

If the file name has a space, but your browser cannot show it with <img
src="#CFFILE.serverFile">, you can try to display your images like this: <img
src="#urlencodedformat(CFFILE.serverFile)#">

If the case is vice versa, i.e. the CFFILE.serverFile would actually contain
the "%20" (I doubt it), <img src="#replace(CFFILE.serverFile,"%20","
","all")#"> could do the trick.

But the best practice, in my opinion, is to replace the spaces with
underscores "_" right after the upload. Use find() to check if there are spaces
in the file name, and <CFFILE action="rename" ....> after that ,if necessary.

Furthermore, you findoneof() and replacelist() are very useful functions, if
you want to check for more special characters, and replace them with something
else. It's a good habit to check for ? ? ? ? etc. (in case you can't see the
characters, they were a o u with umlauts, and a with acute) , and change these
to a o u a accordingly. Just to begin with.

[jdeline]

If I take your filename literally, foo%x0bar.jpg is not a valid name, since x0 is not a valid hex number. Do you mean foo%20bar.jpg?

[Unregistered]

If the actual file has a space but your code has a "%20 then use:

URLDecode(FileNameVariable);

If not, then somewhere upstream during the naming of the file the name is being URL encoded. Use the above code there to fix it.