--- loncom/interface/lonhelp.pm	2003/09/22 18:35:46	1.11
+++ loncom/interface/lonhelp.pm	2003/12/15 19:46:13	1.12
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ sub handler
      my $docroot = $r->dir_config('lonDocRoot');
      my $serverroot = $ENV{'HTTP_HOST'};
 
-     my $filenames = substr ($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'} , 
-			    rindex($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}, '/') + 1, -4);
+     my $filenames = &Apache::lonnet::unescape(substr ($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'} , 
+			    rindex($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}, '/') + 1, -4));
      
      # Security check on the file; the whole filename must consist
      # of nothing but alphanums, ' ,, or ., or the file