GNU bug report logs - #7017
Suggestion: (url-retrieve-internal) hexify multibyte URL string first

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: William Xu <william.xwl <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 01:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Seth Mason <seth <at> edgecast.com>
Cc: 7017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7017: url-retrieve seems busted
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 16:34:53 +0800

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Applying url-hexify-string on the entire URL, as the previous patch did,
>> is wrong.  We musn't hexify reserved characters that are being used in
>> their special role.  Unfortunately, figuring out when those characters
>> are being used in their special role requires an implementation of
>> RFC2396, which I don't think we currently have in Emacs.
>
> Actually, I think we could use url-generic-parse-url for this.

Fixed in trunk (revision 108172).
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 96 days ago.

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