Re: url-encoding for http addresses

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 22:48 -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> Peter Harvey <pah06 uow edu au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:47 -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> > > But then you have to have special code in your application to escape
> > > only http uri's.  You might as well let gnome-vfs do it for itself.
> > 
> > Hate to jump in here, but where are you getting unescaped http uris from
> > in the first place?
> 
> 1) From the user.

If its not escaped, its not a uri, and gnome-vfs works on uris. Its as
simple as that. 

Now, we *do* have functions like gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input that lets
you create uris from user input. However, what the user inputed is *not*
a uri.

> 2) I have a certain structure in the filesystem, and that structure is
>    the same whether it is local or remote.  So for local stuff I
>    prepend file://(path to stuff) and for remote stuff I prepend
>    http://www.example.org/(path to stuff).

That is not at all right for uris. uris are not pathnames.
Why are you not using gnome_vfs_uri_append_path or
gnome_vfs_uri_append_file_name for this? Thats the way its supposed to
be done. Spaces are invalid even in file: uris, so your method is wrong
for that too. You have to use gnome_vfs_get_uri_from_local_path().

> Not having to give much thought to whether a file is local or remote
> is one of the great advantages of something like gnome-vfs.

Yes. This is what gnome-vfs solves. To do this it treats all file
references as uris.