spaces in url for get task (2)

["Bhadra, Jatin" <ja...@landg.com>]

Hi all, 

I want to pass the following URL as the source parameter to the get task.

http://localhost:32000/servlet/vajimport?rep=c:/ant-1.3/New repository.dat

What this URL does is calls a servlet vajimport that runs in Visual Age for
Java 
(VAJ) servlet engine. Parameter rep takes in the path of repository to be
imported.

I have this following task in my build.xml file
<get src="http://localhost:32000/servlet/vajimport?rep=New repository.dat"
dest="c:/test.html"/> 

I can see the message 
[get] Getting: "http://localhost:32000/servlet/vajimport?rep=c:/ant-1.3/New
repository.dat"

But the request that is sent to the server is only 
http://localhost:32000/servlet/vajimport?rep=c:/ant-1.3/New

I would had assumed that in ant all the spaces will be replaced by + or %20
.

Has any one come across this problem before. 

Thanks in advance
Jatin

PS: I known that I can replace the space in my request with + or %20 but
since the parameter 
that I pass in is a variable I have no control over it.


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Re: spaces in url for get task (2)

[Benjamin Reed <ra...@befunk.com>]

Bhadra, Jatin [jatin.harish@landg.com] wrote:
> I would had assumed that in ant all the spaces will be replaced
> by + or %20.
> 
> Has any one come across this problem before. 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Jatin
> 
> PS: I known that I can replace the space in my request with +
> or %20 but since the parameter that I pass in is a variable I
> have no control over it.

According to the RFC (1738), spaces in URLs are supposed to be
ignored completely; if a space needs to be passed in a URL it
should always be encoded:

   Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons.  The space
   character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear
   and insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are
   transcribed or typeset or subjected to the treatment of
   word-processing programs.

   ...

   In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, linebreaks, tabs,
   etc.) may need to be added to break long URLs across lines.
   The whitespace should be ignored when extracting the URL.

Is there no way to fix the non-conforming app that's passing
spaces in URLs?

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