handling of underscore in hyperlinks (?) -- A bug perhaps ( reference -- [Tclhttpd-users] Problem with relative links?)

[Shawn K. <sha...@ea...>]

Hi --

I have a doc containing hyperlink "/pack_checklists/pack_checklist.htm" in
the html:

...
<td width=300* style=" margin-top:1px; color:#6d858b;
font-weight:bold;font-variant:small-caps;text-align:center;color:white;"><fo
nt size=2><a style=color:#6d858b;text-decoration:none;
onmouseover="Over(this)" onmouseout="Out(this)"
href="/pack_checklists/pack_checklist.htm">Trip Checklist</a></font></td>
...

which -- when the link is chosen -- the server tries to deliver the page
<docroot>/_checklists/pack_checklist.html.

This seems that it may be a bug in the handling of the uri string in the
server.  It appears that the string is being truncated.


Server is tclhttpd 3.5.1 --

tclsh is threaded --
% package require html
1.2.2
% info patchlevel
8.4.7
% package require uri
1.1.3

Has anyone else seen this behavior or can verify that it exists in the
current cvs head or in the same version I am running?

It might be useful if someone could independently verify that one of these
problems exists (see RE: [Tclhttpd-users] Problem with relative links?) --
so that I could be sure that I have a reasonable test scenario.  That way I
wouldn't be wasting anyone's time by pointing these out.

To see it for yourself:

http://www.shawnkielty.com/about/

and select the "Trip Checklist" link. I'll leave it broken for a few days --
since I don't get much traffic anyway.

Just as a side note -- I'd be willing to write some tests for these cases.

Shawn Kielty

http://www.shawnkielty.com
(480)636-1524
(510) 828-9411