From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T05:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri bug

On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Steve H. wrote:

> Hello all, I'm using open-uri combined with hpricot to make a basic
> web crawler that scrapes for different links that I need. It seems to
> be working perfectly, but I have encountered the following bug when
> this type of link is encountered:
>
> irb(main):015:0> URI.parse('http://hello.com/a.php?%1')
> URI::InvalidURIError: bad URI(is not URI?): http://hello.com/a.php?%1
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:436:in `split'
>        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:485:in `parse'
>        from (irb):15
>
> Can anyone illuminate why this is a problem?  Thanks!


Probably because %1 looks like a partially escaped character.  Try:

	?%251
Where %25 is an escaped %

-Rob

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