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[Quanah Gibson-Mount <1003633@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1512845 for
the https issue

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Title:
  Escape plus character in apt HTTP requests to work around Amazon S3
  bug

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  
  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

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