Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] tla does not allow archive locations with a newline

[Aaron Bentley]

While we're at it, tla should never url-escape URLs when providing them 
to http/sftp servers.  If an archive is registered with 
"http://www.deruwe.be/aderuwe/arch/%7b2003%7d/";, that's what tla should 
request.  If it requests 
"http://www.deruwe.be/aderuwe/arch/%257b2003%257d/";, that's just silly.

I suppose it's okay to tranmute some characters, but that should be done 
when writing to .arch-params/=locations, not later.

Doing otherwise prevents us from expressing urls properly; If some 
server provided archives over CGI, we couldn't do this:
"http://superserver?archwith=tla--devo--1.3"; because the ? gets escaped.

Aaron

James Blackwell wrote:
> Thank you, ddaa, or this most intensive review. If it weren't for you, we
> could have possible missed this most severe buck for DECADES. 
>
> Anyways, apparently one of ddaa's funkier test cases realized that one can
> tehcnically register an archive with a location with a newline (think of
> an archive on the local filesystem)
>
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