[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: Zope3/trunk/src/zope/testbrowser/ fix bug caused be impedance mis-match between Mechanize and zope.testbrowser

[Chris Withers]

Benji York wrote:
> In this case we'd have to mark all characters but the space as "safe". 
> This isn't the "normal" type of URI quoting issue, this problem arises 
> because nothing else in the call chain quotes the spaces 

Ah, okay, nice to have would be a docstring to avoid people like me 
misinterpretting what the method is for.

> (Mechanize or 
> urllib) because they don't need to, but HTTPCaller does a .split() on 
> the first line of the request so there can be no unexpected spaces.  Any 
> other character is acceptable.

Hmm, is it correct for HTTPCaller to do a split like this?

Maybe a .split(' ',3) or whatever would be better?

cheers,

Chris


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