Troubleshooting Opening an item containing non-alphanumeric characters
This troubleshooting section explains how to open items in WebDAV that have certain non-alphanumeric characters in the filename.
- Problem description
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You cannot browse to or open items using WebDAV if the name of the item contains one of the following characters:
< & > # % * : | ~ + - Diagnosis
- This problem is inherent to the way in which different Windows platforms and applications handle these characters.
- Solution
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There are several solutions to this problem.
On the one hand, if the characters that cause problems are among the following:
* : % &then you can fix this problem manually by opening the Registry Editor and navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ASP.NET. In this location, create or find the DWORD calledVerificationCompatibilityand set it to the value 1.On the other hand, if the characters that cause problems are among the following:< > # | ~ +, you can do the following:- Use the Content Manager Explorer to interact with these items.
- Rename the items in Content Manager Explorer to a name that contains only supported characters, then access those items using WebDAV.