Re: firefox handling of apostrophe in www address?

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On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:45 +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> Hello there,
>              My employers have just produced a WWW link with a name
> like:
>    "private.xx.yy/bad name/really bad name's.doc"
> If I click in firefox under fedora 8 I get a 404 for
>    "private.xx.yy/bad$%20name/really%20bad%20name"
> If I type into the title bar
>  "private.xx.yy/bad$%20name/really%20bad%20name\'s.doc"
> openoffice opens a document containing: "500 internal server error"
> If I use a certain other operating system, firefox translates the
> apostrophe into %27 and does get the file. 
> 
>   Is this a Fedora bug? Or are apostrophes not really legal?
>    
>    Thanks,
>            Bill
Oh..and I see if I copy-and-paste the link instead of clicking on it
then it works in Fedora too.
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