From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T07:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: URI::InvalidURIError when using curly brackets

Richard Leonard wrote:

>>From what I've found, curly brackets aren't allowed in a Ruby URI 
> (despite my browser being capable of handling them). 



Browsers lie.

require 'open-uri'
require 'cgi'
uri =
URI.parse('http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=' + 
CGI.escape('{3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-9A-0C-03-05-E8-2C-33-01}'))
html = open(uri).read()

p html


-- 
James Britt

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
  for machines to execute."
   - H. Abelson and G. Sussman
   (in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)