[Yum-devel] conf parsing and spaces in urls

[Michael Stenner]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:17:43PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Hey,
>  Someone was kind enough to point out that spaces in urls work
> dramatically unwell in yum's config file b/c we're splitting on ' ' to
> break it out into a list. I was wondering if:
> 
> 1. why can't we just use the %20 escape for a url?

I had to deal with this issue in urlgrabber a while back.  It now
guesses whether a url is properly encoded or not.  If you're good
about either fully encoding a url or not, then it should be fine.  So,
in my humble opinion, yes... you should just be able to do %20 (and
any other wacky escapes) and you'll be OK.  Let me know if urlgrabber
chokes on anything.

> 2. is there something obvious that should be done instead?

No.  People put a lot of thought into escaping urls.  We should use
that.  Cooking up our own scheme (shell-like escapes, for example)
would just add more layers of pain and cause debugging nightmares.

					-Michael
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