Re: URL-encoded hrefs

Ville Skyttä <[email protected]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:39:04 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2013-03-05 00:09, James Antill wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 10:11 -0800, Ash Charles wrote:
>> Is there a flag or setting for createrepo that allows it to generate
>> urlencoded hrefs?  If not, would the project be open to a patch that
>> made this option available?
> 
>  What version are you using?
>  The current upstream createrepo uses yum which does call to_xml(blah,
> attrib=True) in all code paths, that I can see.

But that's XML encoding, while the OP is asking about URL encoding.
Which IMO should Just Happen properly if it already doesn't (haven't
checked) without any configuration options - if there's a + in a
filename, it needs to be encoded as %2B in a URL.