Public bug reported:
Amazon S3 performs incorrect query-string un-escaping on URLs and improperly
converts the plus ('+') character to a space (' ') when processing incoming GET
requests for files. This causes apt-get to get HTTP 404 errors when
downloading packages from S3-hosted mirrors which include a + character in the
name of the package.
For more background info, see:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=55746
One possibly solution is to change the call to QuoteString in http.cc to
include '+' in the character set, which would escape the plus character
to the %2B form, which will be properly processed by Amazon S3.
Thanks,
Doug
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Escape plus character in apt HTTP requests to work around Amazon S3
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