setup problem when downloading gcc-g++ from webserver

[Reini Urban]

Max Bowsher schrieb:
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>> Got this failure when trying to download from my local webserver
>> (lighthttpd):
>>
>> 2004/11/21 14:59:57 Starting cygwin install, version 2.427
>> [...]
>> get_url_to_file
>> http://192.168.1.1/cygwin/release/gcc/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-3.4.2-1.tar.bz2
>> C:\cygwin\instsoft\NEW/http%3a%2f%2f192.168.1.1%2fcygwin/release/gcc/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-3.4.2-1.tar.bz2.tmp 
>>
>> get_url_to_file failed!
>> get_url_to_file
>> http://192.168.1.1/cygwin/release/gcc-mingw/gcc-mingw-g++/gcc-mingw-g++-20041121-1.tar.bz2 
>>
>> C:\cygwin\instsoft\NEW/http%3a%2f%2f192.168.1.1%2fcygwin/release/gcc-mingw/gcc-mingw-g++/gcc-mingw-g++-20041121-1.tar.bz2.tmp 
>>
>> get_url_to_file failed!
>> 2004/11/21 15:00:33 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
>> 2004/11/21 15:01:04 mbox note: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
>> 2004/11/21 15:01:05 Ending cygwin install
>>
>>
>> It works well when the '++' characters are translated to '%2b%2b'.
> 
> 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.
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Reini Urban
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