deb.li is mangling some percent-encoded characters

[bzed]

deb.li is mangling some percent-encoded characters. For example:

jwilk@moszumanska:~$ ~bzed/godebian-client/add_url 'http://www.example.com/?q=foo%2Bbar'
xekG
jwilk@moszumanska:~$ curl -s --include 'http://deb.li/xekG' | grep -m1 ^Location
Location: http://www.example.com/?q=foo+bar

Note that %2B has been replaced with + in the query string, but these are entirely different things: the former denotes the plus character, while the latter denotes the space character.

[ninjatrench]

Hi,
as per this list http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
the "%2B" denotes "+" sign which is what your code actually did, I don't see how that is wrong

[bzed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#Indexed_search has the gory details ....

[bzed]

Also please note this single sentence on the w3schools url you've referenced:
URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign or with %20.