spaces in urls; problem with URL rewriting

> Hi,
>
> I seem to be encountering some problems with spaces in URLs and I wonder
> if it is just me. It looks like the URL is decoded twice.
>
> In our setup we have files on the file system, which we load with the
> URL generator (and then process). Usually they do not contain spaces,
> and they are easily renamed, but I wondered if I was doing something
> wrong, or if this is something that might effect more people.
>
> The details are:
>
> - I am using Orbeon 3.7.1.
> - files are loaded using the page-flow.xml file with a page-tag with
>  model/view attributes
> - the instance given to the model contains a resource which is decoded.
> - to load the file (I use the url-generator processor), I could do some
>  work-around to re-encode of the URL; something like
>  replace(replace(encode-for-uri($url),"%2F","/","i"),"%3A",":","i")
>  However, I'm not happy with this.
>
> But it goes wrong in the HTML page, where the main orbeon form is
> created with an invalid action (namely the decoded resource).
>
> This form is generated in XHTMLBodyHandler:
> orbeon/src/java/org/orbeon/oxf/xforms/processor/handlers/XHTMLBodyHandler.java
>
> Which sets the submissionpath (in this case defaulting to the local
> document) to:
> handlerContext.getExternalContext().getRequest().getRequestPath()
>
> This then leads to an exception in the rewriteURL function, when the URL
> gets rewritten later.
>
> This can be tested by creating a file with the name file%20.xml and
> viewing it with file%2520.xml
> The resource will contain file%20.xml, and the orbeon outer form
> element: <form id="xforms-form" ...> will contain an action attribute
> "/.../file%20.xml". The URL for the current page however, is
> "/.../file%2520.xml"
>
> I would be interested to know if I am the only one with this problem
> and/or if there is an easy fix.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jan Willem Knopper
>
>
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> Hi Jan,
>
> I read some of your code, but don't have the time to go through all
> the files. It looks to me like you are doing something like the
> following which I was able to run something like:
>
>     <p:processor name='oxf:url-generator'>
>       <p:input name='config'>
>           <config>
>               <url>file:/path/to/mathdox/file%20.xhtml</url>
>               <content-type>application/xml</content-type>
>           </config>
>      </p:input>
>       <p:output name='data' ref='data'/>
>     </p:processor>
>

> Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> I read some of your code, but don't have the time to go through all
>> the files. It looks to me like you are doing something like the
>> following which I was able to run something like:
>>
>>     <p:processor name='oxf:url-generator'>
>>       <p:input name='config'>
>>           <config>
>>               <url>file:/path/to/mathdox/file%20.xhtml</url>
>>               <content-type>application/xml</content-type>
>>           </config>
>>      </p:input>
>>       <p:output name='data' ref='data'/>
>>     </p:processor>
>>
>
> This is indeed what I am doing, and loading the file is not a problem.
> The problem seems to come from accessing the URL
>  /orbeon/mathdox/file%20.xhtml
>
> Some other URLs that might be interesting are:
>  /orbeon/mathdox/file.xhtml
>  /orbeon/mathdox/file%2520.xhtml (%25 becomes %)
>>
>> Could you:
>>
>> 1. Send an updated app which is simpler, in the sense that it just
>> contains the code that you want to show (if possible a single page
>> flow and pipeline).
> is attached as mathdox.zip, containing a page-flow, a simple model with
> just the url generator and an identity view.
>
>> 2. Make sure there are no hard coded paths, or please indicate in your
>> message what I should change.
> The hardcoded path is in the model: mathdox/storage/load-short.xpl
>
>> 3. Post it on the mailing list.
>
> this post is to the mailing list.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jan Willem
>