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Re: [EP-tech] generated_views 3.1

From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:30:06 +0100


Threading: [EP-tech] generated_views 3.1 from C.J.Keene AT sussex.ac.uk
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Hmmm.

The idea is that it now has an identy-mapping from the eprint value to 
the URL and back. The code in question is in Utils.pm as escape_filename 
and unescape_filename.


David Lewis wrote:
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>> When looking at a journal with spaces in its name (which are 
>> converted to underscores) I get a 404 message. The 404 message 
>> mentions 'generate_views', if this script really is redundant with 
>> 3.1 then this message perhaps should be considered as a low priority 
>> bug.
>>
>
> Yesterday I noticed what looked like a bug with the URL encoding of 
> non alphanumeric characters in subjects. For example, if there is an  AT  
> character in a subject key, then the link that gets generated contains 
> '=40' corresponding to the  AT , and if you try to take your browser ther 
> you indeed get a 404. If I substituted %40 for =40 in my browser's URL 
> field, the link worked OK.
>
> I was just starting to investigate when I stumbled across another 
> problem regarding the server name which worried me more (have just 
> made a post on this subject), so I put the possible URL encoding bug 
> on the back burner .. but I can confirm that something does seem a 
> little amiss.
>
> David
>

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 


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