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Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 11:51:47 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl v2
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> So what should the generic escaping look like?
>>>   
>>
>> -drive file=my-silly\:filename\,with\ strange\ characters
>>
>> I see no reason to do anything overly complicated.  Of course, if 
>> you're in a shell, you'll have to double escape unless you've got 
>> single quotes around it.  That's a good argument for file: in 
>> addition to escaping.
>>
>
> With backslash escaping, I never know how many backslashes I end up 
> with.  They're also the path separators in one OS.
>
> I'd go with URL separating:
>
> -drive file=file:my-silly%3afilename%2cwith%20strange%20characters

URI escaping has some pretty strange rules because there set of 
characters allowed in a URI is << what is representable in a shell 
without requiring escaping.

But honestly, I don't care that much.  I'll leave the decision up to 
whoever writes up the patch.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori