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From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
To: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <NMoreyChaisemartin@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Doron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>
Subject: Re: imap-send with gmail: curl_easy_perform() failed: URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:46:47 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1711301041250.30591@tvnag.unkk.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50fb321e-bbfc-adae-992d-eea1b818171e@suse.de>

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On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:

> This is due to the weird "[Gmail]" prefix in the folder.
> I tried manually replacing it with:
>         folder = %5BGmail%5D/Drafts
> in .git/config and it works.
>
> curl is doing some fancy handling with brackets and braces. It make sense 
> for multiple FTP downloads like ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt, 
> not in our case. The curl command line has a --globoff argument to disable 
> this "regexp" support and it seems to fix the gmail case. However I couldn't 
> find a way to change this value through the API...

That's just a feature of the command line tool, "globbing" isn't a function 
provided by the library. libcurl actually "just" expects a plain old URL.

But with the risk of falling through the cracks into the rathole that is "what 
is a URL" (I've blogged about the topic several times in the past and I will 
surely do it again in the future):

A "legal" URL (as per RFC 3986) does not contain brackets, such symbols should 
be used URL encoded: %5B and %5D.

This said: I don't know exactly why brackets cause a problem in this case. It 
could still be worth digging into and see if libcurl could deal with them 
better here...

-- 

  / daniel.haxx.se

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29 17:13 imap-send with gmail: curl_easy_perform() failed: URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL Doron Behar
2017-11-30  2:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-30  3:28   ` Jeff King
2017-11-30  3:55     ` Jeff King
2017-11-30  9:39   ` Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-11-30  9:46     ` Daniel Stenberg [this message]
2017-11-30  9:51       ` Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-11-30  9:55         ` Daniel Stenberg
2017-11-30  9:47     ` Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-11-30 10:07 ` [PATCH] imap-send: URI encode server folder Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-11-30 17:53   ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-05 15:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-18 18:25     ` [PATCH v2] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-12-18 18:48       ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-18 19:11         ` [PATCH v3] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-12-18 22:19           ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-12-18 22:32           ` Junio C Hamano

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