Re: %20 in URLs (was Re: Squid and spaces in URLs)

Marc van Selm writes:

>In url.c we change %xx into a character. http://www.kpn-telecom.nl uses %20 in

we do?

>their URL's (stupid?) This translates here in a space and so triggers a
>protocol error.
>
>/* convert %xx in url string to a character
> * Allocate a new string and return a pointer to converted string */
>
>char *
>url_convert_hex(char *org_url, int allocate)

url_convert_hex() is only used by gopher functions. It should probably
be taken out and gopher should use rfc1738_*escape() instead.

but squid does not "unescape" %xx characters in URLs, except in the
ACL checks I guess.

Duane W.
Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 11:31:23 MDT