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Re: setup problem when downloading gcc-g++ from webserver


Reini Urban wrote:
Max Bowsher schrieb:
Both RFC1738 and it's successor RFC2396 state that '+' is a legal
character unencoded in the path portion of an URL.

Sure, but then in a url a + is translated to a space, not to '+'. If you want plus, you'd need to urlencode it to %2b, otherwise it's interpreted as %20.

Incorrect. Your assertion is valid only for the query portion of an URL, but here we are discussing the path portion of an URL.


Max.




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