Repository search doesn't work when language name has a space

[punchagan]

Repository searches fail, when the language name contains a space.

gh.repos.search('vim', language='Emacs Lisp')

[lambdapilgrim]

github api gives server error for the requests containing unknown language names or language names with a space (%20)

Examples:
https://github.com/api/v2/xml/repos/search/physics?language=emacs%20lisp
https://github.com/api/v2/xml/repos/search/physics?language=fkjdlreqre

Should handling these special cases be an option in this library or should the server error be reflected?

[punchagan]

https://github.com/api/v2/xml/repos/search/physics?language=Emacs%20Lisp doesn't seem to give an error. Though, it doesn't return any search results as well.

[lambdapilgrim]

I see error 500 with the above link.

[punchagan]

It seems to work for me.

curl -i https://github.com/api/v2/xml/repos/search/physics?language=Emacs%20Lisp

gives me

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.0.4
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:49:11 GMT
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
ETag: "edc574a846575639a3bb6c6de36e5f5b"
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 59
X-Runtime: 327ms
Content-Length: 68
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<repositories type="array"/>

[lambdapilgrim]

Interesting. I see 200 with curl command too. Pasting that link in a web browser gives an internal server error.

[lambdapilgrim]

And well, it is working on a browser too today. There is something going on behind the curtains.