[Bug 1653094] Re: apt-helper fails on urls with space

[Julian Andres Klode]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

It does work. The input URL you pass to it must not be encoded, though.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe

will be encoded to

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%2520fonts/final/andale32.exe

(the % is encoded as %25) and that causes things to fail.

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Title:
  apt-helper fails on urls with space

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer tries to download
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe via apt-helper
  download-file.

  That url redirects to
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe,
  a url containting a space (%20), witch it seems apt-helper doesn't
  handle well, as it ends up with
  https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the&... the part
  up to the space in the redirected url.


  Ubuntu 16.10, apt 1.3.3

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