[Yum-devel] conf parsing and spaces in urls

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:15 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> >  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?
> > 2. is there something obvious that should be done instead?
> 
> I'm all for just using %20 (and other such "standard" URL escaping)
> 

Well I suggested to the user with the problem to try that, except that
it ended up double-escaping the % to pass to the url.

so that didn't work so well.

-sv