Special characters in image url

[sandy1028]

<?php>
$filename='http://www.example.com/polopoly_fs/1.1034350!/img/httpImage/image.jpg';
$size = getimagesize($filename);
print $size;
</php>

 

If the image has symbol "!", it takes long time to execute the script. Please tell me how can we avoid this.

[dragon_sa]

what is creating the directories with the special characters in it? I would always avoid making directories with names like this 1.1034350!

[sandy1028]

It is the client who is creating this. Can you please tell how can we make the execution faster with these special characters.

[dragon_sa]

if the client is creating directories with names like this, I would be cleansing their data(removing special characters) in your scripts that allow them to create such directory names, then you will not have this issue.

To fix it now you will have to manually change the directory names and the links that refer to these directories, and fix your scripts that allow them to create directories and file names.