[MacPorts] #18736: distname is not percent-encoded before gluing it into the URL

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#18736: distname is not percent-encoded before gluing it into the URL
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 Reporter:  ryandesign@…             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  MacPorts 1.8.0                       
Component:  base                     |     Version:  1.7.0                                
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 MacPorts base does not percent-encode the distname before putting it in
 the final URL. This causes distnames containing spaces to be completely
 unavailable (causes a Tcl error), causes distnames containing a percent
 character to probably not download at all (probably not a common need),
 and causes distnames containing a plus character to work sometimes but not
 others, at the whim of the web server (since a plus should really be
 encoded as %2b the web server is completely within its right to not know
 what we're asking for).

 I first noted this in [comment:ticket:18733:3 #18733] in response to
 r47662.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18736>
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