Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone tests failing under Debian automated building

[Markus Wanner]

Francis,

On 04/24/2012 05:04 PM, Francis Russell wrote:
> I don't think this is a requirement though, looking at RFC3986, "+" is a
> reserved character, protected from percent encoding and "therefore safe
> to be used by scheme-specific and producer-specific algorithms for
> delimiting data subcomponents within a URI."

Safe for *delimiting* data subcomponents. I don't think the plus sign is
allowed in the subcomponent of a path itself.

> So, + only needs to be
> percent encoded if it otherwise has a special meaning in the file://
> scheme. Since + doesn't I don't believe it needs to appear in an escaped
> form.

Yes, plus encodes a whitespace. That's why you didn't get a decoding
error, but monotone tried to load the file "/tmp/mtn 2.db".

Regards

Markus Wanner