[Mediawiki-l] Uploaded image with a plus sign in the name

[Platonides]

Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Yesterday I uploaded an image and, unfortunately, I named 
> it "Holsten_Lemon+.jpg". I completely forgot that '+' is a special character 
> in URLs.
> 
> The upload went fine, and there was no error message, but when I was 
> redirected to the Image page Image:Holsten_Lemon+.jpg, I got redirected 
> to "Image:Holsten_Lemon_.jpg" (underscore instead of a plus). But the page 
> says there is no file with this name, and the page title is "Image:Holsten 
> Lemon .jpg" (space instead of a plus).

Try going to /wiki/Image:Holsten_Lemon%2B.jpg


> Second: It's a bug? I don't know if MediaWiki should allow upload a file with 
> this name, but if it does, it should show it properly, isn't it?

If it allows the upload with that name and doesn't rewrite internal urls 
to acces there, it is.