setup problem when downloading gcc-g++ from webserver

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Mon Nov 22 11:37:00 GMT 2004


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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