[cups.general] '#' in device URIs

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Aug 18 04:38:29 PDT 2006


Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 14:12 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>>> Should CUPS treat the '#' comment character in the same way that bash
>>> does, i.e. treat it as a comment character only when at the beginning of
>>> a word?
>> The # needs to be % encoded, as required by the URI spec...
> 
> Thanks.  It's a samba bug then, since '%23' didn't work.

Yeah, smbspool doesn't use the httpSeparate* APIs from CUPS (on
purpose), so they probably just need to add percent decoding to
the code...

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