Re: Bug in url-retrieve-synchronously from url.el on redirect

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 01:49, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 01:18, Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> wrote:
>
> > url-retrieve-synchronously fails to obey redirect responses if the
> > returned "Location" header contains spaces: it redirects to the URL
> > truncated to the first space. It seems that spaces in the Location
> > header value are allowed (at least ngnix produces headers like that).
>
> They are not, and you should report it as a bug against nginx. It
> should be percent-encoding the space. It should also be
> percent-encoding any non-ASCII characters.

Actually, I went along and reported it myself, with an example that
clearly demonstrates a bug in nginx:

https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/2016