Hi,
my site uses html and css to force downloads, howerver whenever you select a file with an apostrophe ( ' for those who failed grade school) the file seems to not download. Here's my error message:

PHP Code:

ERROR: File not found. USE force-download.php?file=filepath 


An example is here, just click on the 5th link down.

Thanks for your help
carter

try replacing the apostrophe with %27

Because the information is supplied via a URL you must do URL encoding, simply make sure your script encodes them with urlencode() and make sure that if you do a string comparison to make sure you also urlencode the string it compares against so that it would match.

Cheers,

MC

Originally Posted by mastercomputers

Because the information is supplied via a URL you must do URL encoding, simply make sure your script encodes them with urlencode() and make sure that if you do a string comparison to make sure you also urlencode the string it compares against so that it would match.

I don't quite understand what you are talking about with the "url encode()" can you please explain?
thanks

Originally Posted by stOx

try replacing the apostrophe with %27

I tried that and it doesn't work

could anyone help me please?