From: "lrlebron@..." <lrlebron@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T01:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Open-URI and percent sign in url

On Sep 27, 11:15 am, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 08:58 , lrleb...@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.

Thanks. That worked!