Bug#833779: devscripts: [uscan] please strip whitespace in href when matching URLs

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:40:39AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> the HTML there is decidedly weird, with extra whitespace in the href:
> 
> ---------
>              <td class="name"><a class="execute" href="
>                     /skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/downloads/sks-1.1.6.tgz">sks-1.1.6.tgz</a>
>             </td>
> ---------
> 
> So uscan isn't able to find it.
> 
> I reported the issue to bitbucket:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/13130/downloads-page-has-spurious-whitespace
> 
> and got this response on IRC (#bitbucket on freenode):
> 
> 11:29 <+dwfreed> dkg: browsers ignore the whitespace
> 11:30 <+dwfreed> URLs can't have spaces in them anyway, which is what the field is
> 11:30 <+dwfreed> it must be encoded, either as + or %20
> 11:30 <+dwfreed> so teach the tracker to adhere to the spec

Referencing the HTML spec[0], the value of the href attribute is a
"valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces", so uscan does indeed need
to be fixed.

[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#links-created-by-a-and-area-elements

Cheers,
-- 
James
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