[htdig-dev] Adding allow_space_in_url to 3.2.0

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Joe R. Jah, on htdig-general:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > According to Joe R. Jah:
> > > I have been trying to port fileSpace.1 from 3.1.6 to 3.2.0b5.  At first it
> > > appeared to be relatively simple, attached, but:
...
> > This patch adds an allow_space_in_url attribute to htdig 3.2.0b5, so
> > that you can get htdig to handle URLs that contain embedded spaces.
> > Technically, this is a violation of RFC 2396, which says spaces should
> > be stripped out (as htdig does by default).  However, many web browsers
> > and HTML code generators violate this standard already, so enabling this
> > attribute allows htdig to handle these non-compliant URLs.  Even with
> > this attribute set, htdig still strips out all white space (leading,
> > trailing and embedded), except that space characters embedded within
> > the URL will be encoded as %20.
> ...
> 
> Thank you Gilles; it works like a charm; I have put it in the patch site:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.2.0b5/fileSpace.0
> 
> I vote +1 to avail this option for 3.2.0.

That raises a good question as to feature-freeze status.  Now that
3.2.0b5 is out, are we still in a feature freeze, or are new features
still allowed?  If the freeze is still on, then we need to vote in
any new features.

This particular one is a pretty simple addition which doesn't break
anything as far as I can see.  The description above could be the
basis of the defaults.cc entry, which the patch doesn't have yet.
I vote +1 as well.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)