id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
21244	media_sideload_image() should replace spaces and %20's in URLs to dashes	kingkool68		"I wrote a script to import content by scraping the HTML from a site. Yuck! Some of the image file names have spaces in them. DOUBLE YUCK!

I needed to use `media_sideload_image()` to import them into WordPress' media library.  But the only way to successfully download the image is to first replace the space characters with %20. Then WordPress saves the new filename with %20's in them and WordPress multisite's .htaccess rules despise filenames with %20 in them. 

Here is how I fixed it:

`$file_array['name'] = basename($matches[0]);`

becomes

`$file_array['name'] = preg_replace('/\s|%20/', '-', basename($matches[0]));`

Need an image with a space in the filename? Use this http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedImages/Topics/Issues/Social_Welfare/John%20DiIulio2.jpg "	defect (bug)	closed	normal		Media		normal	duplicate