Bug#488557: NetRW and cgi-parameters

[Charles Campbell]

James Vega wrote:
> Chip,
>
> Current netrw doesn't properly download a file when there are cgi
> parameters as part of the URL.  Given the following command, Vim starts
> with an empty buffer
>
> vim 'http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=nmu.diff;att=1;bug=484881'
>
> This also occurs if "&" is used instead of ";" for the parameter
> separators.
>
>   
Hmm, I see that there's an errant escape() involved.  In fact, as you 
pointed out, there's a number of protocols that still have an escape() 
insinuated earlier in the code that needs fixing.  Hopefully v125c will 
have caught most of them.  I've tried reading and writing files and 
directories using ftp and scp under Linux with this fix, plus your 
http://.../ example.  Please continue testing netrw; vim 7.2a is still 
alpha, and I'd like to iron out more of the problems before its vim 7.2 .

Regards,
Chip Campbell