unable to download Filename containing & symbol

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I have an MVC Application. I have a Model object which holds File Name and Path on the server.

In some for loop (to display files in table) i am binding anchor( tag's) href property dynamically as

HTML

<td>
   <a href = "@item.Path"> @item.Name </a>
</td>

This works perfectly until any of my file names contain symbols like '&' for example.

Before when i have faced same issue in passing text which contains '&' as query string. i have fixed it through encodeURIComponent in javascript.

But i am unable to do the same thing for Files, Please suggest.

Regards.

Posted 31-Dec-12 19:02pm

Rakesh6906

Updated 31-Dec-12 19:03pm

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2012-12-31T19:09:00

Solution 1

You need to render the filename correctly, & is the first character of encoding for various chars. Replace it with & amp; ( without the space ).

Posted 31-Dec-12 19:09pm

Christian Graus

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Rakesh6906 1-Jan-13 1:16am

doesn't that change the file name? and i may get file not found error?

Christian Graus 1-Jan-13 1:25am

No, it tells the browser how to render the text you want

Christian Graus · Answer 2 · 2012-12-31T21:14:00

Solution 2

Actual, you can use @Html.Raw(item.Path) in MVC to get it to render without encoding.

Posted 31-Dec-12 21:14pm

Christian Graus