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Amber
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I have a link to an image on the Public Dashboard that is not working. I have discovered that the problem is due to the URL including %20 in place of every blank space. These spaces are necessary for the URL to work. I'm not sure why the public dashboard changes these spaces while the other dashboards do not. Is there a way around this?

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Dave
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Hi Amber,

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These spaces are necessary for the URL to work.


This surpises me. As far as I know an URL cannot contain spaces. Hence te replacement with %20 ( = 32 = ascii space ).

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Dave


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It's called URL Encoding.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

If the image has the space in it, can you resave it with a new name - without the space?


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Any web server should automatically URL-decode escaped characters in an URL request, and thus would translate those %20 strings back to spaces before it matters.

Unless OS/400 handles URLs differently? If that's the case, you should really take it up with IBM (not that they'll listen...).

Of course, that assumes that the images you reference really are on the web-server and not somewhere else where URLs (and URL encoding) have no meaning.


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We are a IBM i workshop, but the values are passed as a html link to view RVI images. I'm not sure why they work in MRE, dev studio, and on all our other dashboards, but not on public. But they do, and with 4 spaces/padded (due to that index being right justified). So I guess the question is why does one work with spaces if its not suppose to.


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Perhaps those spaces are at the tail of the URL?

When not URL-encoded, those trailing spaces get trimmed off the URL before the image file is looked up on the server.

When they are URL-encoded, I imagine that they would remain part of the file-name that's being looked up on the server.


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No. The spaces are somewhat in the middle of the URL. The index value that I am passing is A9, but the value in the field is right justified 5 characters. I believe I will have to make a work around for this. Inside our firewall, this works perfectly, but outside it replaces the blanks with 20%.


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Try coding the space as a plus sign (+). That should remain unchanged (=not subject to hex-style URL encoding) in the generated html, and the webserver should maps that to a space on the return trip.
 
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