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HTML to filenames with spaces search for %2520 instead of %20

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Hi

When I have HTML that uses file names with paths that have spaces in them, Firefox 8.01 looks for a URL that has %2520 instead of spaces.

Looking online this seems to be because a space is encoded as %20 and then the % is encoded again as %25.

Why does this happen? Is it a bug? How do I fix it other than go back to using Internet Explorer?

Hi When I have HTML that uses file names with paths that have spaces in them, Firefox 8.01 looks for a URL that has %2520 instead of spaces. Looking online this seems to be because a space is encoded as %20 and then the % is encoded again as %25. Why does this happen? Is it a bug? How do I fix it other than go back to using Internet Explorer?

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cor-el
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Can you post a link or the HTML code that you use?

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The code is:

<img src="C:\Users\User\Documents\Comic Collector\Thumbnails\fb649ddaabbbf57643731dd8a4d463cd.jpg">

It displays correctly in Internet Explorer but not Firefox. Firefox translates it to ...Comic%2520Collector...

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cor-el
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You need to use the file:/// protocol for such local links. 

<img src="file:///c:/Users/User/Documents/Comic Collector/Thumbnails/fb649ddaabbbf57643731dd8a4d463cd.jpg">