Re: [p2-dev] URL's with spaces

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've noticed something similar, when
calling p2 APIs, such as to add a property for p2.mirrorURL URL ... if
you provide an escaped '&', you end up with & ... which
later, of course, is invalid. 

  # remember, the '&'
should NOT be XML escaped here ... the p2 api (or underlying xml)
will escape it.
  MIRRORURL_ARG="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?format=xml&file=${MIRRORURL}"

I've never looked at the underlying
code that does this, but suspect it's not so much "by design"
as simply "quick and easy" parsing? Perhaps based on the assumption
that the "input" need not be XML ... but in at least in most
cases the output is? 





From:      
 Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>
To:      
 P2 developer discussions
<p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
Date:      
 07/16/2014 11:27 AM
Subject:    
   [p2-dev] URL's
with spaces
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I tried to use a URL that contained %20 (escaped space).
The Eclipse installer fails to read the repository if I paste 
that URL into it:

  http://geppetto-jenkins.puppetlabs.com/job/Geppetto%20Dev/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/geppetto.p2.repository

If I however replace the '%20' with a space, then everything works OK.
It seems like the installer escapes the escapes.

Is this per design? It seems a bit awkward that I cannot do "Copy
Link Location" in the browser and then paste it into 
the installer without first manually replacing all escapes.

- thomas

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