Plus sign in url

Question

User-590375999 posted

Hi,

the pdf file name contains plus + sign, when i try to access it from iframe, i am getting file not found 404.11

Answer 1

User475983607 posted

Hi,

the pdf file name contains plus + sign, when i try to access it from iframe, i am getting file not found 404.11

And the expected results as the + is a special charter in a URL.  Replace the "+" with %2B.

Answer 2

User1520731567 posted

Hi sivapooja,

the pdf file name contains plus + sign, when i try to access it from iframe, i am getting file not found 404.11

It is not uncommon to have filenames that contain spaces or special characters.

The specification for URLs poses a problem, in that it limits the use of allowed characters in URLs to only a limited subset of the US-ASCII character set.

For example;

If you upload a file named "image 1.jpg" and attempt to link to it using the following URL:

http://cacheflyusername.cachefly.net/image 1.jpg .

You will receive a 404 response as this is an invalid URL. 

A correct URL for this example will look like:

http://cacheflyusername.cachefly.net/image%201.jpg

In this example, the correct URL encoding escape character for a space is %20. 

More details about a reference for URL encoded special characters,you could refer to this article:

https://cachefly.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/215068626-How-to-format-URLs-that-have-special-characters-in-the-filename-

Best Regards.

Yuki Tao