Re: url-encoding for http addresses

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:38 -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just upgraded gnome-vfs2 on my Debian testing machine from 2.6.2 to
> 2.8.3, and it seems that the default interpretation of http uri's has
> changed.  In 2.6, gnome-vfs2 breaks if you don't url-encode any http
> uri's you give it.  In 2.8, it breaks if you do.
> 
> First of all, is this change documented anywhere?  Second, is there a
> simple way to check for versions so that I can write code that will
> work with both the old and new conventions?

Hmm. This sounds bad. You mean that passing in a string containing "%20"
breaks, but one with a space in doesn't? That seems wrong, the gnome-vfs
semantics should be that uris always have to be escaped.