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Hi
I have some images containing the character "+" in the name. Those images can be uploaded and edited in the admin panel but never show on the page.
The reason is, that the file names are not escaped when the URLs are composed. But "+" in an URL has a special meaning: for historical reasons, this is treated as a space (exactly like %20). So when composing the URLs, all file names must be correctly encoded to be used in a file path.
Renaming them in X3 and removing the plus solves the issue but should ideally not be necessary.
Thanks
Matt

For reference, when you say "never show on the page", do you mean they don't display at all? Or the image fails to load into place? Thanks.

On a gallery, just an endless loading spinner appears. In the admin panel, everything works as expected.

The reason it fails in the gallery view is, that the image is tried to be loaded using an url like:
https://domain/x3/render/w640-c1.1/album/IMG_10228+.jpg  (which treats the + like a space by the server)
Or when clicking on it, the url would be:
https://domain/x3/render/w1024/album/IMG_10228+.jpg  (with the same problem)

The generated HTML is also wrong (and probably the main reason) in this case: (in the href and data-image, the "+" should be encoded as %2B

I'll look into it for next release. Keep in mind, we do restrict these characters when renaming or creating files and folders in X3, because some characters are not supported, while others (like +) have ambiguous meaning. On some servers, + is interpreted as empty space, although empty space is encoded to something else.

Anyway, definitely room for improvement, as all characters are resolved correctly in our newer files.gallery app.

Thanks for reporting!

Alright, thanks! A good solution might also be to just replace such characters on upload so that such files cannot ever get into the system (easily).

This was fixed in X3.32.0. See release post:
photo.gallery/blog/photo-gallery-x3-32/

Thanks ! Will try it out soon