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[Patch] Re: URI-encoding of '#'

From: Mathias Weinert <mathias.weinert_at_gfa-net.de>
Date: 2006-02-23 17:30:39 CET

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Mathias Weinert wrote:
>
> > $ svn info http://anyhost/#
> > svn: URL 'http://anyhost/#' is not properly URI-encoded
> >
> > As you can see the URI-encoding of '#' doesn't work. At least
> > it doesn't work in my environment - Subversion 1.3.0 on cygwin.
> > I also checked it under Windows and there the problem is also
> > existing (in version 1.3.0 as well as in version 1.2.3).
>
> Since the # sign has a special meaning in a URI, we can't automatically
> escape it there. The auto-escaping is meant as a convenience for
> characters that don't have another meaning. Other characters, you will
> need to excape by hand.
>

Hmm, I understand that the '#' has a special meaning in "standard"
URLs but is there any situation where it has a special meaning
while used as a Subversion path?

Mathias

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