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Id: 72310
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: App-cpanminus

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: rrwo [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 1.5003
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Tilde in URL must be escaped
Downloading a module from a URL with a tilde such as http://example.com/~user/Foo-123.tar.gz does not work: cpanminus requests the root, "/" instead of the package file. It does work when the tilde is URL-escaped, http://example.com/%7Euser/Foo-123.tar.gz
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #72310] Tilde in URL must be escaped
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:41:33 -0800
To: bug-App-cpanminus [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa [...] gmail.com>
This is due to a new feature in 1.5 that accepts formats like Plack~0.99 On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Robert Rothenberg via RT <bug-App-cpanminus@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> Wed Nov 09 07:27:23 2011: Request 72310 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by RRWO >       Queue: App-cpanminus >     Subject: Tilde in URL must be escaped >   Broken in: 1.5003 >    Severity: Important >       Owner: Nobody >  Requestors: rrwo@cpan.org >      Status: new >  Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72310 > > > > Downloading a module from a URL with a tilde such as > http://example.com/~user/Foo-123.tar.gz does not work: cpanminus > requests the root, "/" instead of the package file. > > It does work when the tilde is URL-escaped, > http://example.com/%7Euser/Foo-123.tar.gz > > >
-- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa