[ROL-1289] Spaces in category name leads to 404

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.1
• Component/s: User Interface - General
• Assignee: Roller Unassigned
• Reporter: David Johnson
• Created: 06/Nov/06 16:57
• Updated: 01/Mar/14 12:04
• Resolved: 08/Dec/06 18:38

Description

For category names that contain spaces, we produce URLs that look like this:
http://localhost:8080/roller/roller/category/Open%2BSource

But we don't parse those correctly because, by the time we get to WeblogPageRequest the URL has already been decoded.

We should apply the same trick we use for tags with spaces: around line 127 in WeblogPageRequest, we should add code to replace "+" signs with spaces like so:

// all categories must start with a /
if(!this.weblogCategoryName.startsWith("/"))

{ this.weblogCategoryName = "/"+this.weblogCategoryName; + this.weblogCategoryName = weblogCategoryName.replace('+', ' '); }

• Dave