List of recent documents page opens when opening a file with '#'
Versions:
n/a,
FAQ number:
186,
Old FAQ number: 12405
When I tried opening a file with '#' in the filename, the "List of recent documents" page was opened instead, why?
This is an issue with ASP.NET parsing url strings. If a URL contains a hash sign that is properly encoded (to "%23") ASP.NET will decode it back to '#' with the consequense that everything before the hash will be treated as the request and everything after as a URL-fragment.
This can cause strange effects, an example would be the page with the friendly URL -
http://<site>/Documents/ [^]
to be loaded when the file
http://<site>/Documents/%23test.txt [^]
is requested.
This has been reported to Microsoft as an error.
The resolution for now is to avoid having hash signs in filenames of files that you wish to upload to EPiServer.