From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:23:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Strangely broken git repo
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510101123100.14597@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0510101119n4e7e9399x705993b4608d63b6@mail.gmail.com>



On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Morten Welinder wrote:
>
> Spaces in URLs are off-spec.  (And common, go figure.)

They may be off-spec in url's, but that doesn't mean that "curl" should 
just ignore them. It should either escape them, or refuse them. Using 
user-supplied data without any checks is usually a really bad idea.

			Linus