On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 08:04 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> > I also don't like the %2f encoding, not so much for this particular
> > case, but because it sets a bad precedent, and the standard unix text
> > filtering commands don't have any support for that sort of escaping
> > (i.e. it's not really what you'd expect on unix).
>
> The precedent comes both obviously from URI syntax standards/RFC's, and
> in the Solaris context, from pkg(5). ls /var/pkg/pkg on your system
> to see lots of existing files with %2F names.
Precedent set, and while it results in ugly looking names, it will work
unambiguously. Lets move on now... (sorry I raised it in the first
place).
(Oh, can you please elaborate whether any other % encodings are used?
At a minimum it sees that % itself must be encoded...)
- Garrett
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