[mdlug] Evil URLs at OpenSuSE

[David Favro]

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Robert Meier wrote:
>   
>>> Maybe this usage has been around a while and I just haven't noticed,
>>> but this week I did notice, urls like this:
>>> http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11:/xfce/SUSE_Linux_10.0/i586/
>>> The evil bit seems to be the inclusion of the colon ':' in the directory
>>> name.
>>>       

Maybe try replacing it with the escaped ASCII code like:

http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11%3A/xfce/SUSE_Linux_10.0/i586/

>From RFC1738:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
In addition, octets may be encoded by a character triplet consisting of the character "%" followed by the two hexadecimal digits (from "0123456789ABCDEF") which forming the hexadecimal value of the octet.
</BLOCKQUOTE>