Re: [Bug-wget] Shouldn't wget strip leading spaces from a URL?

[L A Walsh]

Dale R. Worley wrote:
> L A Walsh <address@hidden> writes:
> > W/cut+paste into target line, where URL is double-quoted.  More often
> > than not, I find it safer to double-quote a URL than not, because, for
> > example, shells react badly to embedded spaces, ampersands and
> > question marks.
>
> But of course, no URL contains an embedded space.
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Why not?

   John Mueller of Google posted a note about spaces in the URL on Google+. 
   You know, the URLs that look like www.domain.com/file name goes here.html.

   Should you fill those holes?

   John Mueller of Google said "the answer is not "no"" when it comes 
   to the question "Should you encode spaces in URLs as "%20", "+" or
   as a space (" ")?"


But what would someone at google know?