Ah, I suppose I tripped over RFC-1866 which designated '+' as a valid encoding. Nice that standards change when they want to. Gives a whole new meaning to "standard". I will have to revisit my code then. Andy On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Elvin Sindrilaru wrote: > It is legitimate but it's not an encoding for empty space. Some old tools encode empty space as "+" but the standard says it should be "%20". More details in the RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 > > -- > You are receiving this because you commented. > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1320#issuecomment-725923895 -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1320#issuecomment-725931006 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1