Behaviour of javaws when handling spaces.

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Jiri Vanek wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm trying to provide test to latest Omair's patch to PR804.
> Patch itself is not ready (I'm posting it just for clarifications),
> because I hesitated how javaws should handle "Spaced" files.
> Omair's patch fixed state, when locally lunched file with spaces was
> handled incorrectly. But question is, how is this file obtained from
> server? I believe that in URL which downloads this file should (eg)
> spaces replaced by %20 (and so on), but file should be saved (eg into
> cache or for next usage) correctly. If So, how the hrefs inside jnlp
> should be written? With spaces or with "%20"? If there are Spaces then
> it is working on local lunching, and %20 are working on remote lunching,
> but not vice versa.
> In my reproducer all those cases are covered (local x remote and jnlp
> with spaces x jar with spaces). But all of the cases except one (jnlp
> with spaces, jar without spaces) are failing.
> Some changes to engine were necessary - handling of spaces in makefile,
> and correct(?) translating  URI <-> String insinde tiny http server.
> 
> Any remarks tto patch and to correct space handling welcomed.
> 

Hi Jiri,

from my point of view, the percent encoding should be used only during requesting (possibly distant) file, ie in
URL/URI, but on the other hand the file name must contains spaces, not %20s. Also please note, that not only space is
encoded by percent encoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding.

Pavel