miyagawa/cpanminus — Issue #134: Installing from URL that contains ~ does not work
Author: miyagawa
Created: 2011-11-22 18:08:16+00:00
State: open
Labels: bug

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72310

Downloading a module from a URL with a tilde such as
http://example.com/~user/Foo-1 23.tar.gz does not work: cpanminus
requests the root, "/" instead of the package file.

It does work when the tilde is URL-escaped,
http://example.com/%7Euser/Foo -123.tar.gz