OTP url parser does not like spaces

[Kyu]

So I had a OTP Url like so otpauth://totp/Slack ({workspace_name}):{email}?secret={secret_code}&issuer=Slack
the space was inserted as %20

When trying to import it via Barcode, it would buzz(on the iOS app) and do nothing, so I opened the barcode in a reader and tried to manually enter it in the Buttercup app. Saving would cause it to crash. I eventually saved it as just the {secret_code} for future usage, but then I opened my vault in the Chrome extension and changed the OTP url to remove the ({workspace_name}) and space before it, and it worked just fine. The new URL looked like otpauth://totp/Slack:{email}?secret={secret_code}&issuer=Slack

TL;DR
I think the space caused some issue in the parser, so that's basically what I'm reporting here, the OTP url parser does not like spaces.

[perry-mitchell]

I've checked this with a lot of online OTP URI generators, and they all insert %20 as expected:

(this was taken from here)

URIs shouldn't support spaces anyway, as they should always be encoded to %20 (or + I guess in some cases). Considering this, I'm starting to think that this issue might be invalid. Any systems generating an OTP URI with spaces are probably doing it erroneously.

[Kyu]

That makes sense, I'll see if I can take the issue up with slack then

[perry-mitchell]

@Kyu Let us know how you go!

It's probably not a lot of work implementing a function to replace spaces with %20, but this feels hacky. I'm at least open to hearing other opinions, as well.