Question

Upload of file generates filenames containing %20

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We are using file uploads in Mendix. After uploading a file with a SPACE in the filename, we noticed that the filename is changed to contain %20 instead of the SPACE characters. How can we prevent this?

asked 2012-02-24

Brian Golsteijn

3 answers

Sebastiaan van den Broek · Answer 1 · 2012-02-24

This has to do with sending content-disposition in older browsers, also see http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/ That said, you could file a ticket and maybe we can have a look at this again and see if we can improve.

Pieter van de Braak · Answer 2 · 2012-02-24

I'm not sure but what happens if you set an after commit action that checks whether the name contains %20 and then replaces that with a space? But it might be worth a try.

Brian Golsteijn · Answer 3 · 2012-03-06

To be a bit more specific our issue is located in our email exchange integration. I did some more research and the issue seems to be caused by the integration (java code). Thanks for your assistance for now.