Comment 7 for bug 1086997

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Daniel Hartwig (wigs) wrote : Re: [Bug 1086997] [NEW] apt-get fails if a package has a space in its Filename

On 6 December 2012 13:27, Daniel Hartwig <email address hidden> wrote:
> Regardless of how debian-policy defines valid filenames /in control
> files/, the APT Acquire system and HTTP method can be used outside the
> context of debian control files, and should still issue
> correctly-formed HTTP requests and save the files properly.

Acquire system should be ok. Attaching trivial patch for
methods/http.cc. Rationale: space (#x20) is a delimiter in the
context of a HTTP Request-Line [1] and therefore must be
percent-encoded in the Request-URI.

[1] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5.1>