[vlc-devel] [PATCH] gui: Replace all spaces with "%20" in URLs

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Thursday 22 December 2011, Rob Jonson wrote:
> This is assuming you do want to encode chars like & and ? as part of a
> param, rather than a param indicator.

For reserved characters, there is a fundamental and thus unavoidable 
ambiguity: whether each of them is an URL component separators or an 
incorrectly (un)encoded character.

IMHO, the only reasonable policy consists of assuming reserved characters are 
separators, and leave them as is.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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