From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-09-28T01:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Open-URI and percent sign in url

On Sep 27, 2007, at 08:58 , lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to use open-uri to open the following url
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#% 
> _toc_start
> and I'm getting the following error

%_t is not a valid % escape sequence.  You probably want ...#%25_toc...

> However, the url works fine in the browser.

The browser is more forgiving, which is nice for people like my parents.