URL contain Special characters Giving Problem in IE7 and Firefox

Question

hello every one

I am trying to open .pdf file in IE7 and firefox, But its not working

Actualy There is Hyperlink on HTML page on That Hyperlink click event i m opening .PDF file

Problem with file name when i used to open file D:\Documents\Doc\Trans1\1\Pages from 818 averill avenue 1_001-5.pdf its working fine in all browsers but when i tried to open file D:\Documents\Doc\Trans1\1\Pages from 818 averill avenue #1_001-5.pdf i get error, page not found in IE7 and Firefox and in IE6 its working fine. Only change in that is added # in file name......

any idea.......

Thank in advance.

Answer 1

Change your back slashes to forward slashes and add "file:///" to the front. Then URL encode the hash (# is %23).

Answer 2

A # in a URL denotes a named anchor.

I can't reproduce your error with FF3. Both dragging from Explorer and opening via File|Open manage to display a PDF inside FF when the filename contains a hash