[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] http: handle URLs with spaces

[wm4]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 19:22:50 +0100
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le quartidi 14 pluviôse, an CCXXII, wm4 a écrit :
> > And you reject any realworld-safe handling like browsers and wget do?
> 
> Once again: please distinguish libraries from end-user applications.
> 
> For libraries, sane and predictable behaviour is paramount.

What is an end-user application supposed to do?

1. Split input URL into protocol and rest
2. Guess all avio protocols which might use http
3. Split the http URL in further components
4. Do the escape mangling on the path component
5. Join them all back

All that in the application code, for every project that uses
libavformat and wants to do network access? And that for an API that
isn't even http specific but accepts generic URLs?

This API sure likes causing trouble...