[Savannah-hackers] Re: %2F in arg to viewcvs doesn't work

[Mathieu Roy]

"Stefan Monnier" <address@hidden> said:

> > > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD
> > > 
> > > gives me the head revision of the emacs/lisp/ChangeLog file, but
> > > 
> > > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp%2FChangeLog?rev=HEAD
> > > 
> > > gives me:
> > > 
> > > The requested URL /cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog was not 
> > > found on this server.
> > 
> > And that's correct, there's no url with %2F. 
> 
> Why not ?  %2F is the encoding of / so it should work just as well.

Well, try http://www.caliban.org/bash/ and
http://www.caliban.org%2Fbash/ and tell me if it works as as well.


> If the %-expansion isn't done, then how do you access files with
> non-ASCII chars (or LF or ...) in their names ?
> 
> > > I noticed this while trying to setup a bookmark in my browser with
> > > the following URL:
> > > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/%s?rev=HEAD
> > 
> > This links does not work too, and I do not know how you get it too.
> 
> Mozilla and derived browsers expand the %s with any argument passed
> to a shortname bookmark.  I.e. if a you create a bookmark with the above
> url and give it a shortname of `emacscvs' then typing
> 
>       emacscvs foo
> 
> in the location box of you Mozilla/Phoenix/Galeon/... you'll go to
> 
>       http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/foo?rev=HEAD
> 
> I have such "smart bookmarks" setup for google search, merriam-webster,
> you name it...  It's very handy.

Ok, I get it. 

The problem is probably your %2F.

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Mathieu Roy
 
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