aria2 Unrecognized URI or unsupported protocol When the url have space in it

Question

My input:

http://www.example.com/New file.zip

When try to download a remote file that have space in its url aria2 complains about it:

Exception caught
Exception: [download_helper.cc:451] errorCode=1 Unrecognized URI or unsupported protocol: New

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '21 at 15:46

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Try to change the space into "%20"

aria2c http://www.example.com/New%20file.zip

Or

aria2c "http://www.example.com/New file.zip"

answered Oct 21 '21 at 15:46

Seve Dev

If using environment variables, this works as well: `aria2c ""${download_url}"` – Mircea Sep 19 '22 at 22:36

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