On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:18:19PM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote:
> On 2005.02.21, Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 February 2005 12:53, Bernd Eidenschink wrote:
> > > Looks exactly like bug number 972994,
> > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=972994&group_id=31
> > >52&atid=103152
> >
> > > Quote: "To reproduce, try to download an RPM package such as:
> > > libstdc++-3.3.2-1.i386.rpm." :-)
> >
> > Yeah, looks like.  Dossy was chasing that bug last September.  Dossy?
> > Is this fixed in 4.0.10?  In my case, I can't use the workaround since
> > the http request is being sourced by the anaconda installer itself.
>
> http://aolserver.com/sf/bug/972994
>
> No, it's not fixed -- I'm conflicted about how to best fix it, i.e., my
> comment from 2004-08-18 11:31.
>
> My thoughts on this matter at this point in time:
>
> 1) I do NOT want to go breaking backwards compatibility.
> 2) I do NOT want to go introducing new Tcl procs if we don't have to.
>
> What makes this even more frustrating is that the best solution to this
> problem isn't simple.  It might be made simpler by decoupling the URL
> decoding code that AOLserver uses when parsing request URLs from the
> code that powers ns_urlencode/ns_urldecode.  This way, the server can
> easily Do The Right Thing(tm) when parsing request URLs, independently
> of all the problems we'll have changing the behavior of
> ns_urlencode/ns_urldecode with regards to backwards compatibility.
>
This makes some sense. I know OpenACS and tDAV have code specifically to
work around this. I will have to look to see if fixing nsurlencode would
break it, or if the workaround would be unaffected.

Dave

> Thoughts?
>
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