From: hniksic Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 21:11:43 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [svn] Minor doc fix. X-Git-Tag: v1.13~1067 X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=commitdiff_plain;h=62b6b8abf58ab97b0aedb5984e2242e3a098db5e [svn] Minor doc fix. --- diff --git a/src/url.c b/src/url.c index fee88593..31148735 100644 --- a/src/url.c +++ b/src/url.c @@ -297,15 +297,14 @@ char_needs_escaping (const char *p) GET /abc%20def HTTP/1.0 - It appears that the unsafe chars need to be quoted, for example - with url_escape. But what if we're requested to download + It would appear that the unsafe chars need to be quoted, for + example with url_escape. But what if we're requested to download `abc%20def'? url_escape transforms "%" to "%25", which would leave us with `abc%2520def'. This is incorrect -- since %-escapes are part of URL syntax, "%20" is the correct way to denote a literal - space on the Wget command line. This leaves us in the conclusion - that in that case Wget should not call url_escape, but leave the - `%20' as is. This is clearly contradictory, but it only gets - worse. + space on the Wget command line. This leads to the conclusion that + in that case Wget should not call url_escape, but leave the `%20' + as is. This is clearly contradictory, but it only gets worse. What if the requested URI is `abc%20 def'? If we call url_escape, we end up with `/abc%2520%20def', which is almost certainly not