Re: "Resend email" gave me a "does not exist" message

Resending in case it got lost in spam over long holiday

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 12:34:44PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 03:31:16PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:08 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 01:24:23PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > > Maybe (un)related, but I went to use the new "Resend email" button and
> > > got a
> > > > "does not exist" page.
> > > >
> > > > I tried again and it worked.
> > > >
> > > > Timestamp probably less than 5 minutes before:
> > > > Sun Oct 13 13:23:54 CDT 2019
> > > > Sun Oct 13 18:23:56 UTC 2019
> > > >
> > > >
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/resend/CA%2BHiwqEtw99mUnPv6Z0eSZosmXMzibOCD2qjAk9GESNzeBd22A%40mail.gmail.com
> >
> > This one somehow seems related to the + sign in the URL (encoded as %2B). I
> > managed to reprodce your problem once and ended up with a space in the
> > middle of the URL (which is a typical case of missing escape for it).
> >
> > But I've been completely unable to reproduce it since :/
> >
> > So there is a bug lurking there somewhere, but I'm not sure what it is. If
> > it happens again, please try to re-trace your steps even closer, and in
> > particular pay attention to if at some step a blank space shows up in the
> > URL bar!
>
> I hit this again shortly before:
> Wed Jan 1 18:29:48 UTC 2020
> while accessing:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/resend/CAMkU=1zBJNVo2DGYBgLJqpu8fyjCE_ys%20msr6pOEoiwA7y5jrA(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com
> "Not Found - The requested page was not found."
>
> The previous page in my history was:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU%3D1zBJNVo2DGYBgLJqpu8fyjCE_ys%2Bmsr6pOEoiwA7y5jrA%40mail.gmail.com
>
> So I guess the issue is with %3D (=).
>
> And for no apparent reason, when I go "Back" and reclick "Resend email", then
> it works, now with URL:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/resend/CAMkU%3D1zBJNVo2DGYBgLJqpu8fyjCE_ys%2Bmsr6pOEoiwA7y5jrA%40mail.gmail.com

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