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Re: setup problem when downloading gcc-g++ from webserver


Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Got this failure when trying to download from my local webserver
(lighthttpd):

2004/11/21 14:59:57 Starting cygwin install, version 2.427
[...]
get_url_to_file
http://192.168.1.1/cygwin/release/gcc/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-3.4.2-1.tar.bz2
C:\cygwin\instsoft\NEW/http%3a%2f%2f192.168.1.1%2fcygwin/release/gcc/gcc-g++/gcc-g++-3.4.2-1.tar.bz2.tmp
get_url_to_file failed!
get_url_to_file
http://192.168.1.1/cygwin/release/gcc-mingw/gcc-mingw-g++/gcc-mingw-g++-20041121-1.tar.bz2
C:\cygwin\instsoft\NEW/http%3a%2f%2f192.168.1.1%2fcygwin/release/gcc-mingw/gcc-mingw-g++/gcc-mingw-g++-20041121-1.tar.bz2.tmp
get_url_to_file failed!
2004/11/21 15:00:33 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
2004/11/21 15:01:04 mbox note: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
2004/11/21 15:01:05 Ending cygwin install


It works well when the '++' characters are translated to '%2b%2b'.

Both RFC1738 and it's successor RFC2396 state that '+' is a legal character unencoded in the path portion of an URL.


Max.


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