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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 53751] Whitespaces in URL's are not expanded to %20
From:       "Timo A.Hummel" <timo.hummel () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-09-21 19:28:06
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------- Additional Comments From timo.hummel@gmx.net  2003-09-21 21:28 -------
Probably I failed to explain it correctly. Remember that Konqueror handles such
URL's correctly, but it is a "usability problem". Actually I don't know what the
current behaviour is, but this bug is based on Konqueror which came with KDE 3.0.x.

Assume you have got the following URL (imagine <SPACE> as regular space as typed
on the keyboard):

http://www.foo.bar/test<SPACE>image.png

With that URL, we have a few problems:

- Copying that URL out of the location bar to another application usually breaks
the link since the <SPACE> is handled as URL end.
- Some web servers expect an URL-encoded (i.e. %20) space instead of a plain space.
- Plain spaces within URL's are considered unsafe as of RFC 1738
(ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1738.txt).

How other browsers handle this:
- If an URL contains a space, it will be transparently replaced with their
urlencoded counterparts (e.g. http://www.foo.bar/test<SPACE>image.png will
placed as http://www.foo.bar/test%20image.png in the clipboard).

If you look at the original bug report, you'll notice the URL:
http://www.monday-rec.com/party/2002-09-07 Studio/ 

"Studio/" belongs to the original URL, but isn't handled as such since the space
breaks it. The Link as inserted using Konqueror. With Mozilla, it would have
looked like that:
http://www.monday-rec.com/party/2002-09-07%20Studio/ 

Mozilla replaced the space with %20 when I copied it to the clipboard.
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