Double-slashes in URLs

Michael Bisbjerg michael@mbwarez.dk
Thu Sep 17 15:18:00 GMT 2015


I noticed once I set up a mirror of my own, that Cygwin Setup will
prepend all it's URL's with a double-slash. This does not seem to be
intentional, and I found the place in the sources where I believe the
error to be.

On line 160 of "download.cc", we see that the "n->key" is the source
of the repository, including a "/", as it is used as the name of the
local cache, which always has a "%2f" in its name. That key is then
used on line 165 in "get_url_to_file", where it is concatenated with
another slash and "pkgsource.Canonical" to make the final URL.

My (untested) patch removes this slash, so that the resulting URL's
will be with a single slash.

------ PATCH -----
diff --git a/download.cc b/download.cc
index a5aebe0..e319ed4 100644
--- a/download.cc
+++ b/download.cc
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ download_one (packagesource & pkgsource, HWND owner)
                                  pkgsource.Canonical ();
       io_stream::mkpath_p (PATH_TO_FILE, "file://" + local, 0);

-      if (get_url_to_file(n->key +  "/" + pkgsource.Canonical (),
+      if (get_url_to_file(n->key + pkgsource.Canonical (),
                          local + ".tmp", pkgsource.size, owner))
        {
          /* FIXME: note new source ? */
------ PATCH -----

Regards.
Michael



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