[RN] Strip spaces when parsing URLs

react/features/base/util/uri.js

@@ -177,7 +177,11 @@ export function parseStandardURIString(str: string) {
     let regex;
     let match: Array<string> | null;
 
-    // cleanup spaces
+    // XXX A URI string as defined by RFC 3986 does not contain any whitespace.
+    // Usually, a browser will have already encoded any whitespace. In order to
+    // avoid potential later problems related to whitespace in URI, strip any
+    // whitespace. Anyway, the Jitsi Meet app is not known to utilize unencoded
+    // whitespace so the stripping is deemed safe.
     str = str.replace(/\s/g, '');
 
     // protocol