How To Access A File Name Containing URL Encoding Through The Browser?

I created a file name called '%20%20.txt' and uploaded in my webs space. When I am trying to access above file through URL by typing 'http://mysite/%20%20.txt', it is showing an e

Solution 1:

The %20 that you use in the URL will be decoded, so you are looking for the file " .txt", but the %20 that you used to create the file is not decoded, so the actual name of the file is "%20%20.txt".

You need to use the URL http://mysite/%2520%2520.txt to access the file "%20%20.txt". The %25 is the encoded form of %.

Solution 2:

Use %2520%2520.txt, %25 decodes as the percent-sign %. You can use the table on http://www.asciitable.com/. The number after the percent-sign is a hexadecimal representation of the ASCII value.

If you have a long string, you could also use Javascript's encodeURIComponent function:

prompt("Encoded:", encodeURIComponent("%20%20.txt"))

This could be executed in the Javascript console (Ctrl + Shift + J in Firefox) and displays a dialog containing the escape value.

Solution 3:

If your file name really is %20%20.txt, try http://yoursite.com/%2520%2520.txt.

%25 is the percentage encoded.

Solution 4:

You need to escape those percent signs:

http://mysite/%2520%2520.txt