From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-10-31T00:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: is this an open-uri bug?

In article <74297C5A6F930B4CB40D33BD127E882A0DA0E3@WSTEXCH00.westminster.polycom.com>,
  "Bradley, Todd" <todd.bradley@Polycom.com> writes:

> Hi, I'm new to Ruby and new to using open-uri.  But I think I found a
> bug.  Could someone take a look at this and if this is really a bug,
> tell me who to report it to?

It seems that the URI is redirected to invalid URI.

% ./ruby -ropen-uri -e '
class << URI
  alias org_parse parse
  def parse(arg)
    p arg
    org_parse(arg)
  end
end
open("http://www.infospace.com/home/redirect.htm?formfrom=qsearch&pgtarg=directory&wqhqn=2&qhqn=Bubba+Ray+Jackson&qc=Broomfield&qs=co")
'
"http://www.infospace.com/home/redirect.htm?formfrom=qsearch&pgtarg=directory&wqhqn=2&qhqn=Bubba+Ray+Jackson&qc=Broomfield&qs=co"
"http://www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/validate.htm?kcfg=wpus&otmpl=%2Fwhite-pages%2Fresults.htm&qfm=n&qk=10&top=1&qname=Bubba+Ray+Jackson&qf=Bubba&qn=Ray&qc=Broomfield&qs=co"
"http://kevdb.infospace.com/home/white-pages/kevdb?kcfg=wpus&otmpl=%2Fwhite-pages%2Fresults.htm&qfm=n&qk=10&top=1&qname=Bubba+Ray+Jackson&qf=Bubba&qn=Ray&qs=co&searchtype=citystate&QN=Jackson&QF=Bubba Ray&qc=Broomfield"
/home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:432:in `split': bad URI(is not URI?): http://kevdb.infospace.com/home/white-pages/kevdb?kcfg=wpus&otmpl=%2Fwhite-pages%2Fresults.htm&qfm=n&qk=10&top=1&qname=Bubba+Ray+Jackson&qf=Bubba&qn=Ray&qs=co&searchtype=citystate&QN=Jackson&QF=Bubba Ray&qc=Broomfield (URI::InvalidURIError)
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:481:in `org_parse'
        from -e:6:in `parse'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:572:in `proxy_open'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:525:in `direct_open'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:169:in `open_loop'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `catch'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:134:in `open_uri'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:424:in `open'
        from /home/akr/ruby/tmp-ruby/1.8/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:85:in `open'
        from -e:9

Since the last URI
  http://kevdb.infospace.com/home/white-pages/kevdb?kcfg=wpus&otmpl=%2Fwhite-pages%2Fresults.htm&qfm=n&qk=10&top=1&qname=Bubba+Ray+Jackson&qf=Bubba&qn=Ray&qs=co&searchtype=citystate&QN=Jackson&QF=Bubba Ray&qc=Broomfield
contains a space, URI.parse fails.
-- 
Tanaka Akira