Re: [Celestia-developers] URL encoding patch

[Selden E B. Jr <se...@co...>]

I tested the URL patch with Celestia r4670 
using both the Milky Way and one of Jeff Davies' satellites
which had a [+] in its name (noaa 15)
and it seems OK.

s.

> The attached patch should fix bug 2581786: cel URLs not URL encoded. See
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2581786&group_id=21302&atid=121302This
> bug caused problems when URLs for objects with spaces (and potentially other
> special characters) were saved. When posted in the forum, these URLs with
> special characters would not take the user to the correct location.
> Replacing the special characters with the %<hex digits> encoding fixes the
> problem. Celestia has always been capable of *decoding* special characters
> encoded in this way.

> --Chris