[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #217: DSA-based mutable files -- small URLs, fast file creation

[Jack Lloyd]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:27:55AM +0000, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
>  - visually check that URL didn't get mangled. Since it isn't
>    fully visible in the address bar, this check requires:
>      click, pause, click-drag to end, scan for mangling,
>      click, pause, click-drag to front, scan for mangling,
>      click to unselect.

Just for the heck of it I wondered what happend if you do mangle the
URL. (Mostly because when I copied it out of my mailer, a bunch of
spaces got inserted into the URL). Seemingly these will cause Tahoe
to spit out some truly ugly exception backtraces:

http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3vi%20v32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html

Frankly I would have expected much nicer behavior here. Most
base[32|64] implementations I've seen will ignore whitespace.

-Jack