On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
This is due to the weird "[Gmail]" prefix in the folder.
I tried manually replacing it with:
folder = %5BGmail%5D/Drafts
in .git/config and it works.
curl is doing some fancy handling with brackets and braces. It make sense
for multiple FTP downloads like ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt,
not in our case. The curl command line has a --globoff argument to disable
this "regexp" support and it seems to fix the gmail case. However I couldn't
find a way to change this value through the API...
That's just a feature of the command line tool, "globbing" isn't a function
provided by the library. libcurl actually "just" expects a plain old URL.
But with the risk of falling through the cracks into the rathole that is "what
is a URL" (I've blogged about the topic several times in the past and I will
surely do it again in the future):
A "legal" URL (as per RFC 3986) does not contain brackets, such symbols should
be used URL encoded: %5B and %5D.
This said: I don't know exactly why brackets cause a problem in this case. It
could still be worth digging into and see if libcurl could deal with them
better here...
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/ daniel.haxx.se
