Package: apt Package: general package management Version: up to 0.5.28.5 Hi there,
I tried to put a collection of debian packages on a tomcat webserver along with a Packages.gz for easy retrieval via apt-get. However the retrieval does not work whenever a percent sign is part of the filename (and the follwing two characters indicate a valid hex number) as tomcat interprets the escape sequence and retrieves the wrong file name. http://oberon/apt/./g++_4%3a3.3.5-3_i386.deb becomes: http://oberon/apt/./g++_4:3.3.5-3_i386.deb According to rfc1630 percent signs are reserved for quoting and hence forbidden as (literal) part of a URI. So tomcat is doing nothing wrong. Most other webservers do the percent expansion only in the query part of a URL so this problem does not occur there. Tweaking apt-get to send properly quoted URLs would break on other servers. Not desirable :-) So I'd suggest to avoid the percent sign as part of a package file name. -- Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards Holger Klawitter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
