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

[wm4]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 18:50:04 +0100
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le quartidi 14 pluviôse, an CCXXII, wm4 a écrit :
> > So every tool that uses http out there is unreasonable, misleading,
> > and surprising? Try spaces in an URL with wget or any web browser, and
> > see what happens.
> 
> wget and web browsers are applications used directly by lusers. libavformat
> is a library. That entails completely different behaviours.

I'm not sure what's the advantage of having libavformat send malformed
HTTP requests to the server when we could trivially send a correct one.

Also, what kind of mindset is that to call your users "lusers", and at
the same time explicitly violate existing standards and practices?