On Feb 18, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
On Saturday 12 February 2005 06:38 am, Donny Viszneki wrote:I read the source code used for escaping filenames before saving them
to the disk in url.c, and it doesn't seem that it will escape the tilde
ever. This however isn't the problem I'm experiencing. The problem is
that HTTP standards allow for a tilde in a URL, and wget escapes it
(resulting in %7E) before making the HTTP request.
yes, we need an option to tell wget to disable URL escaping. i am working on
it.
But as I noted, the source code does NOT appear to escape the tilde under any conditions. What's the problem?
