Our application wraps libcurl to allow our users to write code in our application's scripting language that supports ftp and http[s] transfers.
We recently upgraded from libcurl version 7.67.0 to 7.83.1 and some of our tests started failing. These tests all use URLs that contain spaces (e.g. " ftp://ftp.example.com/untitled folder/test.txt". I traced these failures down to https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/7073, which changed urlapi to reject spaces in URLs. I understand the reasoning behind that change, but for backwards compatibility purposes I would prefer if our application was able to continue supporting spaces in URLs, just as one can paste in a URL containing spaces into a browser and (usually?) get the intended page. In the past we have been using the CURLOPT_URL option to set the url, but I found the new CURLOPT_CURLU option. I'm now able to create the URL handle with the CURLU_ALLOW_SPACE flag and then pass that handle to curl_easy_setopt. However the problem is that it appears that when the url is set using CURLOPT_CURLU, curl_easy_getinfo for CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL returns an empty string. So unless I am missing something it doesn't seem to be possible to have raw spaces in the URL and also use CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL to retrieve the actual URL after curl has followed redirects. If anyone has suggestions about how to use both of these together I'd appreciate it. Thanks Adam
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